National Catholic Reporter, September 24th, 1993
Books on business history rarely sell unless they can produce the Decameron-like qualities of Wall Street in the 1980s, and intellectual histories die on the shelves. If I tell you that William Leach's Land of Desire also has a dust jacket that reproduces a department store window - Marshall Field's in the 1920s - that probably will finish off your interest in Imach's book.
Unless I add quickly that Peter Maurin turns up among John Wanamaker (of Philadelphia's Wanamaker store), L. Frank Baum (of "The Wizard of Oz") and Herbert Hoover (of mixed memory).
Since Maurin was credited by Dorothy ...
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