Charge It! - Review - book reviews

Reason, Nov, 1999 by James B. Twitchell

Since we usually are treated to only the bad side of that deity, Lendol Calder is to be commended for showing us the other side - the side that, more often than not, has made Missy and Buck's dream possible. The myth that consumer debt is evil is as suspect as the bromide that you can't judge a book by its cover.

James B. Twitchell (jtwitche@english.ufl.edu) is a professor of English at the University of Florida and author of Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism (Columbia University Press).