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Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Vintage Books, New York, 1993.


Preface

Introduction: The Land of Desire and the Culture of Consumer Capitalism

Conclusion: Legacies


I: Strategies of Enticement


Chapter 1. The Dawn of a Commercial Empire

Chapter 2. Facades of Color, Glass, and Light

Chapter 3. Interiors

Chapter 4. Fashion and the Indispensable Thing

Chapter 5. Ali Baba's Lamp: Service for Private and Public Benefit


II: Circuits of Power


Chapter 6. “Business Runs the World”: Institutional Coalitions Behind the New Order

Chapter 7. Wanamaker’s Simple Life and the Moral Failure of Established Religion

Chapter 8. Mind Cure and the Happiness Machine


III: Managing a Dream Culture: 1922-1932


Chapter 9. “An Age of Consolidation”: Goods, Money, and Mergermania

Chapter 10. “Sell Them Their Dreams”

Chapter 11. The Spectacles

Chapter 12. Herbert Hoover’s Emerald City and Managerial Government