Odd but interesting look at American power structures. You can fast forward through the musical parts.
Tags: Carnegie Corporation, warburg pincus, Barbara Ehrenreich, Presidency of Bill Clinton, california institute of technology, hodding carter, Clinton Administration, editor lewis lapham, musical satire, Secretary of the Treasury, Hillary Rodham Clinton, corridors of power, New York Times, George W. Bush, CBS News, new york knicks, Secretary of Defense, Ford Administration, Carter Administration, walter cronkiteThe world’s first dramatic-documentary-musical satire explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, the presence of an elite in our nominally democratic republic. Harper’s Magazine editor Lewis Lapham takes two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power and their own career possibilities. Along the way they meet an all-star cast, including, among many others, former cabinet secretaries (James Baker) corporate mandarins (Peter G. Peterson) newspaper publishers (Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.) and at least one journalist working as a waitress (Barbara Ehrenreich). By story’s end, the graduates’ choice of career takes on great weight: will they try to save the world, or rule it?
