We continue with our discussion of Jerzy Kosinski’s novel, Being There, at the point where “Chauncey Gardiner,” mistaken for a wealthy and handsome businessman, meets the President of the United States and the American press–and a desperate heiress.

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Romantic Democracy: The Blind Following the Blind. (Kosinski’s Being There, 4)