Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 153 of Daniel Boorstin’s magnificent 1973 volume, The Americans: The Democratic Experience; Boorstin is writing here about the rapidly growing American economy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries:

The efforts of craftsmen to please monarchs were crude beside those of modern American market researchers to anticipate the tastes, habits, and desires of their majesties The Public.