PearlyBooks

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Entertaining, eye-opening and sweeping in its reach, America, Inc is an exhilarating work of narrative history. From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to invent, build, strive, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things - the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the twenty-first century. The result is a thrilling alternative history of modern America's rise that reframes historic events, trends, and people through the prism of the value that, for better or for worse, the nation holds dearest: capitalism.