Guaranteed to Last: L.L. Bean's Century of Outfitting America

by Jim Gorman

Book Overview

L.L. Bean's story is also America's story. The ideas and events that drove the company's development are all related to what was happening in the wider world. From the rugged, individualistic legacy of Teddy Roosevelt in the 1910s to soldiers' experiences in both World Wars, from the "back to the land" movement in the 1960s and 1970s that brought millions of people to the wilderness for the first time to the Preppy Handbook craze of the 1980s when...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595910700
• ISBN13: 9781595910707
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Melcher Media Inc
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.2" x 10.2"