America, 1908

The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation

Autor: Jim Rasenberger

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Väzba: Brožovaná

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A captivating look at a bygone era through the lens of a single, surprisingly momentous American yea...

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Autor

Jim Rasenberger

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2011

Stránok

307

EAN

9780743280785

ISBN

0743280784

Enbook ID

11016287

Vydavateľ

Scribner

Hmotnosť

290

Rozmery

152 x 222 x 25

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A captivating look at a bygone era through the lens of a single, surprisingly momentous American year one century ago. 1908 was the year Henry Ford launched the Model T, the Wright Brothers proved to the world that they had mastered the art of flight, Teddy Roosevelt decided to send American naval warships around the globe, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series (a feat they have never yet repeated), and six automobiles set out on an incredible 20,000 mile race from New York City to Paris via the frozen Bering Strait. A charming and knowledgeable guide, Rasenberger takes readers back to a time of almost limitless optimism, even in the face of enormous inequality, an era when the majority of Americans believed that the future was bound to be better than the past, that the world's worst problems would eventually be solved, and that nothing at all was impossible. As Thomas Edison succinctly said that year, "Anything, everything is possible."

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