The transformations that America went through in order to become a
             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 Love and Perfect
             Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society, and editing The Wonderful
             Wizard of Oz. That specifically shows up a number of times in Land of Desire.
             He refers to L. Frank Baum (the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
             throughout the book, as well as to the book itself. Other than that, though,
             there's not much else I know about him, too bad it's not exactly the most
             helpful information as far as why he thinks the way he does.
             Leach broke the book up into 5 major parts. The first being the preface
             and the introduction. These two parts laid out the main ideas of the book.
             After that, Leach went into the three main sections of the book, which end up
             being the three main steps in the transformation into capitalism. The first
             entitled Strategies of Enticement, went into a litt...