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

Evans, Harold

ISBN 10: 0316013854 / ISBN 13: 9780316013857

Published by Back Bay Books, 2006

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2006. New. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316013854
• ISBN 13: 9780316013857
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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

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.