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capitalist country were very significant and are sometimes looked past.
However, in the book Land of Desire, the author, William Leach extensively
goes into many of those things. There were many things that went into this
ranging from specific poeple and incidents to outside places and things. Leach
shows each individual ordeal and explains the personal effect that it had on the
industry, as well as how society accepted, or in some cases condemned such
things. All of this comes from his own education and understanding of the
situation. He shows the drift into a capitalistic country as being a gradual
change in one thing that then led to another, and to another, and so on. Not to
mention that many, many things took part in it. And that if such things had
not occurred, we would not be the country that we are today.
There isn't a whole lot of information on William Leach, but he does
appear to be a very well-thought out man. This is not his only historical book
and he's also done other things, including the book True L
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big, especially around Christmas time. This is
something that seems t be argued about any change and the answer seemed to
be more so than anything, no. Besides, "however flawed, the
capitalist concept of self, the consumer concept of the self, it is a reigning
American concept" (p386) and it is in this system that there is the freedom of
self expression and self fulfillment in a market with no boundaries. That pretty much sums up the
first section of the book, Strategies of Enticement. This is where the nitty
gritty of it all came out. It shed light
on a lot of things that are normally not as deliberated. The first being the preface
and the introduction. The final major section
of the book, Managing a Dream Culture, displayed the managerial aspects of
capitalism and the poeple behind it.
As far as contradicting or supporting information I had already attained
on this topic, I would have to say that if anything, he agrees with it and added
some. You could also tell where his interests laid,
specifically when he spoke about literature. It discusses just how much of an impact capitalism and it's
creations had on every day life for the poeple. It all began with
the advertising cards and eventually led to billboards and electrical advertising. The new places had an impact on things like the
transportation even, "special subway stations were erected for the big
department stores and hotels" (p173).
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