The Dream Merchants Author:Harold Robbins This is Americas story - the story of little people who got into a business that outgrew them - told with all of the tenderness and pathos, all of the drive and rapidity and excitement of Harold Robbins's previous novel, Never Love a Stranger. It might have concerned a dynasty of automobile-makers or oil-producers; but it happens to concern the ... more »pioneer movie-makers, the men who first put "flickers" into penny arcades, who thought they had achieved an ultimate triumph when they built the first nickelodeons. They were local merchants, carnival-operators, and traveling salesmen. Sometimes they were half-educated Greeks or Italians, or immigrant Jews. But they all were natural showmen who knew what their neighbors wanted.« less