Toast: How a Leading Retailer Went From Toast of the Town to Just Plain Toast

by Martin Sneider

When Edison Brothers Stores Inc. went bankrupt in 1995 and liquidated in 1999, many outraged shareholders, retirees, employees and other St. Louisans blamed Martin Sneider, the first non-family member to lead the company Now Sneider - who left the company as president a few months before the bankruptcy, as did his longtime business partner and Edison Chairman Andy Newman - addresses those critics, and many other things, in a self-published book that is part memoir, part St. Louis business history and part retailing primer. St. Louis Business Journal

304 pages, Hardcover