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They Made America

From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine - Two Centuries of Innovators

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By Harold Evans

By Gail Buckland

By David Lefer

Read by Harold Evans

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On Sale
Apr 1, 2005
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781594831454

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$24.99

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  1. Audiobook Download (Abridged) $24.99
  2. ebook $10.00 $15.99 CAD
  3. Trade Paperback $30.99 $39.99 CAD

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

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 who populate Harold Evans’s rollicking, brilliant history of the men and women who made America what it is. 

Vast and beautifully designed, the book is itself a creation as grand as those it described. Evans reveals the surprising truths behind many of the creations that made our modem world, as well as the lessons we can learn by studying the great entrepreneurs and innovators the past two centuries.

“Terrific and inspiring stories about the dreamers and doers who dared to create the modem face of this great nation.” —Jac Wech

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Harold Evans

About the Author

Harold Evans (1928-2020) was a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. A graduate of Durham University, he wrote a number of bestselling histories. He followed the late Alistair Cooke in commentaries on America for the BBC. An American citizen after 1993, he held positions as editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly Press, founding editor of the prize-winning Condé Nast Traveler; editorial director of the Atlantic and US News and the New York Daily News; and president and publisher of Random House.

He held the British Press Awards’ Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement of Journalists. In 2001 British journalists voted him the all-time greatest British newspaper editor, and in 2004 he was knighted. 

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Gail Buckland

About the Author

Harold Evans is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. A graduate of Durham University, he has written a number of bestselling histories. He followed the late Alistair Cooke in commentaries on America for the BBC. An American citizen since 1993, he has held positions as editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly Press, founding editor of the prize-winning Condé Nast Traveler; editorial director of the Atlantic and US News and the New York Daily News; and president and publisher of Random House.

He holds the British Press Awards’ Gold Award for Lifetime Achievement of Journalists. In 2001 British journalists voted him the all-time greatest British newspaper editor, and in 2004 he was knighted. Since 2011, he has been editor-at-large for Reuters.

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