They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators - Softcover

Evans, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316013854 ISBN 13: 9780316013857

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2006

Synopsis

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 surprising truths behind many of the creations that made our modern world, as well as the lessons we can learn by studying the great entrepreneurs and innovators of the past two centuries.

About this title

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

Book Description:

An illustrated history of American innovators, some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating, by the author of the bestselling The American Century

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0316013854
• ISBN 13: 9780316013857
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 706