The Public Interest

To House a Nation

Louis Winnick

Winter 1989

IRVING WELFELD disproves the hypothesis that it is impossible for a bureaucrat to be creative. Although he has been employed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for 22 years with the Civil Service title of “Senior Analyst,” one suspects, and this splendid book confirms, that he’s actually a mole, planted at HUD by a secret society dedicated to the promotion of common sense.

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