Carl Ryant (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 14pp extract, salvaged from a copy of THE FILSON CLUB HISTORY QUARTERLY, Vol 57, No. 3, July, 1983. From the text, "In the United States - a country which takes for granted the presence of these retailers in every geographic area and in all aspects of merchandising - the fact that such businesses were once the subject of intense political, social, and economic debate is perhaps difficult to comprehend. But this was indeed the case, and in a controversy which during the New Era of the 1920s and the Depression Decade of the 1930s spanned the continent at the state and local level (with threats of national chain-store regulation), Kentucky played a significant role." Housed in plastic report cover.…