He did a number of things includingstrengthening the institutional structure and helping enable the environmentfor economical development. This was another small part about who and whathandled the new system of capitalism in our country.And then finally there is the section, Legacies, it pretty much tells youhow Leach thinks individual things that went on permanently changed societyfor us today. And that the stuff that went on from 1880-1930 really made apermanent difference, for the most part improvements, to our business andmarketing systems of today. America strives on this market and without it, wewould lose a big piece of our American heritage. 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.This is a really well set up book, I think. The way Leach organizedeverything in the different sections and then in chapters makes it very easy tofollow the history of capitalism. Although, sometimes it seems as though hewent a little far in explaining certain ideals, as well as exaggerating theimportance of some things. Overall though, it was very well done and after thePrologue, it is a really interesting book.Some of the conclusions that were drawn throughout the book wereobviously biased. Although most of the book is very informative without astrong bias, at certain points you could very well see if or if not Leach agreedwith a certain quote or idea. You could also tell where his interests laid,specifically when he spoke about literature. You heard a lot about Baum andpoeple that were connected with him, but other than that, no other authorswere discussed other than Porter, who had many similar ideals to Baum's. Another thing that was discussed a lot was religion, so I think that Leach has astrong connection to religion, too. ...
