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

An illustrated history of American innovators -- some well known, some unknown, and all fascinating -- by the author of the bestselling The American Century.

Author: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 05/09/2006
Pages: 692
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.06w x 1.09d
ISBN13: 9780316013857
ISBN10: 0316013854
BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Inventions
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Technology & Engineering | History

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.