Mr. Selfridge in Chicago: Marshall Fields in the Windy City & the Making of a Merchant Price

by Gayle Soucek

Overview

This biography recounts the rise of the American retail magnate who would go on to open London’s famous Selfridge’s department stores.
 
In early 1909, a new retail emporium readied for business on the “wrong end of Oxford Street” in London. The man behind it was an odd little American with a waxed mustache and frenetic nature. Harry Gordon Selfridge had spent the previous twenty-five years in Chicago honing his skills at the venerable Marshall Field and Company before unleashing his concept of retail theater in the United Kingdom.
 
In Mr. Selfridge in Chicago, biographer Gayle Soucek follows the young man’s astounding rise through the ranks of the Windy City's merchant princes. From working as Mr. Field’s stock boy to his failed attempt to best his former boss as master of Chicago retail, Soucek follows Selfridge on his tumultuous journey—one that ultimately proves triumphant as he brings the American department store to the United Kingdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625852656
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/10/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	279
Sales rank:	926,376
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Gayle Soucek is an author and freelance editor with more than a dozen books to her credit, including Marshall Field's, Carson's and several other titles with The History Press. Her interests include a wide range of subjects, from history to ornithology to science and true crime. She is a lifelong Chicagoan and Blackhawks hockey fan, residing in the far northwest suburbs with her photographer husband, dogs, parrots, reptiles and one very laid-back cat.