Her Infinite Variety , by Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin, 224 pages, $25.

Louis Auchincloss has always made his readers vaguely uncomfortable. Americans, raised on great national myths like egalitarianism and the meritocracy, prefer not to believe that vast concentrations of power reside in the hands of Eastern bankers and corporate chieftains, who conduct the business Read More