James Tobin

Great Projects (eBook, ePUB)

The Epic Story of the Building of America, from the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention of the Internet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

James Tobin won the National Book Critics Circle Award for his first book, Ernie Pyle's War, and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for his forthcoming biography of the Wright Brothers. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, I, LT, L, LR, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743214766
• Artikelnr.: 37843695

Autorenporträt

James Tobin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for Ernie Pyles War and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. Educated at the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in history, he teaches narrative nonfiction in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University in Oxford, OH.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
1 WATER
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI
CHAPTER TWO THE COLORADO
2 POWER
Introduction
CHAPTER THREE EDISON'S LIGHT
CHAPTER FOUR ELECTRIC NATION
3 METROPOLIS
Introduction
CHAPTER FIVE WATER FOR THE MILLIONS
CHAPTER SIX AMMANN'S BRIDGE
4 PATHWAYS
Introduction
CHAPTER SEVEN THE BIG DIG
CHAPTER EIGHT THE INTERNET
Afterword
Author's Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index