Land Of Desire
The transformations that America went through in order to become acapitalist country were very significant and are sometimes looked past. However, in the book Land of Desire, the author, William Leach extensivelygoes into many of those things. There were many things that went into thisranging from specific poeple and incidents to outside places and things. Leachshows each individual ordeal and explains the personal effect that it had on theindustry, as well as how society accepted, or in some cases condemned suchthings. All of this comes from his own education and understanding of thesituation. He shows the drift into a capitalistic country as being a gradualchange in one thing that then led to another, and to another, and so on. Not tomention that many, many things took part in it. And that if such things hadnot occurred, we would not be the country that we are today. There isn't a whole lot of information on William Leach, but he doesappear to be a very well-thought out man. This is not his only historical bookand he's also done other things, including the book True L
Elegance was very popular and accessories werebig, especially around Christmas time. This issomething that seems t be argued about any change and the answer seemed tobe more so than anything, no. Besides, "however flawed, thecapitalist concept of self, the consumer concept of the self, it is a reigningAmerican concept" (p386) and it is in this system that there is the freedom ofself expression and self fulfillment in a market with no boundaries. That pretty much sums up thefirst section of the book, Strategies of Enticement. This is where the nittygritty of it all came out. It shed lighton a lot of things that are normally not as deliberated. The first being the prefaceand the introduction. The final major sectionof the book, Managing a Dream Culture, displayed the managerial aspects ofcapitalism and the poeple behind it. As far as contradicting or supporting information I had already attainedon this topic, I would have to say that if anything, he agrees with it and addedsome. 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'screations had on every day life for the poeple. It all began withthe advertising cards and eventually led to billboards and electrical advertising. The new places had an impact on things like thetransportation even, "special subway stations were erected for the bigdepartment stores and hotels" (p173).
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