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

Harold Evans; Gail Buckland; David Lefer

ISBN 10: 0316277665 / ISBN 13: 9780316277662

Published by Little, Brown and Company, 2004

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496 Pp. Black Cloth Spine Lettered In Gilt, Black Boards. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Very Near Fine Dust Jacket Priced $40.00.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316277665
• ISBN 13: 9780316277662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics and Business
  • Science (general)
  • Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing

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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.