Shopping, seduction & Mr. Selfridge
"If you lived at Downton Abbey, you shopped at Selfridge's. Harry Gordon Selfridge was a charismatic American who, in twenty-five years working at Marshall Field's in Chicago, rose from lowly stockboy to a partner in the business which his visionary skills had helped to create. At the...
| Main Author: | Woodhead, Lindy. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House Trade Paperbacks,
2013.
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| Edition: | Random House Trade Paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Consuming passions
- The fortunes of war
- Giving the ladies what they want
- The customer is always right
- Full speed ahead
- Going it alone
- Building the dream
- Takeoff
- Lighting up the night
- War work, war play
- Castles in the air
- Vices and virtues
- Making waves
- Tout va
- Flights of fancy
- Over and out.