Lee Smith

THE TEAM Although they didn't know each other at the time, LeonardWolfe and Lee Smith were both students at Yale together:Smith as an undergraduate, and Wolfe as a graduate student.Eventually they worked together at Fortune, where Wolfe wasan art director and Smith a senior writer/editor who served asFortune's bureau chief in both Tokyo and Washington. Stephen Buckles, who served as the book's economicsconsultant, has had a distinguished career in economics educationand currently teaches economics at Vanderbilt University. Roy Doty, whose charming illustrations grace these pages,is considered one of this country's finest cartoonists, and hiswork has appeared in almost every major publication in America.