The book begins with a lawyers' life on the shores of the St. Clair River just north of Detroit. This is where I spent my early summers and recovery from an experimental surgery which miraculously saved me from loss of ability to walk. After that some adventures of childhood are explores including a couple of adolescent years catering to rich kid at a summer camp for the male offspring of Detroit's Gross Point automobile company executives.
The stories move on to a move to Los Angeles after 4 years in the then Army Air Corps, an engineering degree from Stanford and a few of the memorable events as an executive of a Santa Barbara "Think Tank."
The vastly truncated series concludes with a fictional proposal for a solution for he world's myriad problems through a perpetual hierarchical corporation designed to last a thousand years. Oddly, he proposal seems appropriate to the early 21st century.