Store: A Memoir of America's Great Department Stores

365 pp. "Continental in scope, this memoir captures the distant personalities of our most outstanding department stores: Bullock's Wilshire in Los Angeles, Hink's in Berkeley, Goldwater's in Phoenix, Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and Fort Worth, Renaissance Center in Detroit, Dayton's in Minneapolis, Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago and, of course, Macy's, B. Altman & Co., Gimbels, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale's, Henri Bendel, and Gucci in New York."