They Made America
From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine...
$76.01
- Paperback
692 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2006
Summary
The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who invented modern banking. The creator of the computer operating system. These and scores of others are the characters that populate Harold Evans’s rollicking, brilliant history of the men and women who made America great.
Vast and beautifully designed with hundreds of duotones and photos throughout (many never before published), the book is itself a creation as grand as those it describes. Evans reveals the…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316013857 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316013854 |
| Author: | Harold Evans |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 692 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2006 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 154mm x 233mm |
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Critics Review
‘Evans’s book sticks to the facts and presents them with admirable clarity, and largely avoids illusions’ - New York Review of Books ‘Quirky and satisfying from the first chapter to the last sidebar’ - Washington Post Book World
About The Author
Harold Evans
Harry Evans was the founding editor of Conde Nast Traveler, editorial director of US News and World Report, and President and Publisher of Random House, where he published a record number of bestsellers. He is English and was born in Manchester.
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