Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer

Broschiertes Buch

They Made America

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

Beschreibung

Now available in a text-only paperback edition, "They Made America" is a stirring and supremely readable work of history--a celebration of the entrepreneurial energy that has fueled this nation since its inception.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 706
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1182g
• ISBN-13: 9780316013857
• ISBN-10: 0316013854
• Artikelnr.: 21821549