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

The real inventor of the steam engine. The creator of the bra. The man who developed modern banking. The true founder of the personal computer revolution. These and scores of others are the characters who populate Harold Evans's brilliant, rollicking book about the men and women who made America great. Meticulously researched and filled with compelling and surprising stories, They Made America is a supremely readable work of history - a celebration of the entrepreneurial energy that has fueled our nation since its inception.