| Description |
496 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
America's genius for innovation -- Pt. I. Pathfinders to a new civilization -- The heroes who got America going -- Pt. II. America takes off -- Adventurous men unite a continent -- Sect. I. Inventors -- Sect. II. Democratizers -- Pt. III. The digital age -- The electronic elves of Silicon Valley |
| Summary |
"The flourishing of America is the story of an inventive people with a mystic faith in technology, from the early settlers who used windmills as a way of getting water on the Great Plains to the electronic whiz kids of the Internet. Innovation, practical inventiveness, is the main force behind America's preeminence. But there is more to this extraordinary history. Harold Evans traces how the innovators have time and again proved to be democratizers, driven not by greed but by an ambition to be remembered. They translated the nation's political ideals into economic reality."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-481) and index |
| Subject |
Inventors -- United States -- History.
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Inventions -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Buckland, Gail.
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Lefer, David.
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| LC no. |
2003065954 |
| ISBN |
0316277665 |
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