There has never been a history of America like Harold Evans's
long-awaited They Made America . With the verve and cogency that
made his American Century an acclaimed best seller, Evans tells
the epic story of the men and women who made America over two
centuries.The workshop revolutionaries who made our world have
never had the attention afforded the political revolutionaries
who founded this nation. But it has been these innovators, in
small-town attics and on the Mississippi, in Silicon Valley and
the wheat fields of Kansas, in a black woman's beauty parlor and
a Dayton bicycle shop, who set America on a course to attain a
standard of living unprecedented in the history of the world.The
flourishing of America is the story of an inventive people with
a mystic faith in technology, from the early settlers who
devised 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