Throughout American history, there have always been writers who looked at the vulgarities of business life and urged their readers to renounce commerce, material striving, and that bitch goddess success. But most Americans rejected that advice, concluding that commerce, for all its obvious flaws, is the instigator that electrifies and propels. A business culture is a dynamic culture. Enterprise calls forth a vitality that is the antidote to stagnation, enervation, and mediocrity. It....