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The Life and Times of John A. Roebling
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John Roebling was one of the 19th century's most brilliant engineers, ingenious inventors, successful manufacturers, and fascinating personalities. Raised in a German backwater amid the war-torn chaos of the Napoleonic Wars, he immigrated to the US in 1831, where he became wealthy and acclaimed, eventually receiving a carte-blanche contract to build one of the 19th century's most stupendous and daring works of engineering: a gigantic suspension bridge to span the East River between New York and Brooklyn. In between, he thought, wrote, and worked tirelessly. He dug canals and surveyed railroads; he planned communities and founded new industries.
Like his finest creations, Roebling was held together by the delicate balance of countervailing forces. On the surface, his life was exemplary and his accomplishments legion. As an immigrant and employer, he was respected throughout the world. As an engineer, his works profoundly altered the physical landscape of America.
Roebling's engineering feats are well known, but the man himself is not; for alongside the drama of large scale construction lies an equally rich drama of intellectual and social development and crisis, one that mirrored and reflected the great forces, trials, and failures of 19th-century America.
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His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but after John Roebling's sudden death, Washington Roebling built what has become one of American's most iconic structures - as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet, as recognizable as the bridge is, its builder is too often forgotten - and his life is of interest far beyond his chosen field. It is the story of immigrants, of the frontier, of the greatest crisis in American history, and of the making of the modern world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Monumental
- De charles mueller en 07-09-19
De: Erica Wagner
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City of the Century
- The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 24 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Here, witness Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to one of the world's most explosively alive cities by 1900. Donald Miller's powerful narrative embraces it all: Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A STORY THAT TRIES TOO HARD....AND FAILS
- De The Louligan en 02-01-15
De: Donald L. Miller
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The Path Between the Seas
- The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 31 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,507
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,203
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,204
The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. McCullough expertly weaves the many strands of this momentous event into a captivating tale.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No Stone Unturned
- De Tim en 06-25-13
De: David McCullough
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The Great Bridge
- The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,813
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,485
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,486
This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the Civil War, when Americans believed all things were possible.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Historian and not a Novelist
- De Tim en 06-01-12
De: David McCullough
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Revolver
- Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
- De: Jim Rasenberger
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Brilliantly told, Revolver brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. In the space of his 47 years, he seemingly lived five lives: He traveled, womanized, drank prodigiously, smuggled guns to Russia, bribed politicians, and supplied the Union Army with the guns they needed to win the Civil War. Colt lived during an age of promise and progress, but also of slavery, corruption, and unbridled greed, and he not only helped to create this America, he completely embodied it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sam Colt, but not the Revolver
- De Eggleston en 08-01-20
De: Jim Rasenberger
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain
- The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
- De: Gordon H. Chang
- Narrado por: David Shih
- Duración: 9 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 112
From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous western worksite of the Transcontinental Railroad, the migrants spent years dynamiting tunnels through the snow-packed cliffs of the Sierra Nevada and laying tracks across the burning Utah desert. Their sweat and blood fueled the ascent of an interlinked, industrial United States. But those of them who survived this perilous effort would be pushed to the margins of American life and then to the fringes of public memory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very inspiring, educational, and enlightening!
- De Amazon Customer en 06-25-19
De: Gordon H. Chang
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The Men Who United the States
- America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,076
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,070
How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators. Introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sarcastic
- De Cynthia Hartman en 06-16-16
De: Simon Winchester
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Chicago's Great Fire
- The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City
- De: Carl Smith
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 10 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it. Carl Smith’s compelling narrative at last gives this epic event its full and proper place in our national chronicle.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A good read
- De Lori en 11-23-24
De: Carl Smith
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Natural Rivals
- John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands
- De: John Clayton
- Narrado por: Richard Powers
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 182
At stake in 1896 was the new idea that some landscapes should be collectively, permanently owned by a democratic government. Although many people today think of public lands as an American birthright, their very existence was then in doubt and dependent on a merger of the talents of these two men. Natural Rivals examines a time of environmental threat and political dysfunction not unlike our own and reveals the complex dynamic that gave birth to America’s rich public lands legacy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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entertaining story of a great rivalry
- De F. McClamrock en 12-23-21
De: John Clayton
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The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth
- De: Andrew Carnegie
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 12 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,066
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 914
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 916
His good friend Mark Twain dubbed him "St. Andrew." British Prime Minister William Gladstone called him an "example" for the wealthy. Such terms seldom apply to multimillionaires. But Andrew Carnegie was no run-of-the-mill steel magnate. At age 13 and full of dreams, he sailed from his native Dunfermline, Scotland, to America. Here, in one volume, are two impressive works by Andrew Carnegie himself: his autobiography and The Gospel of Wealth, a groundbreaking manifesto on the duty of the wealthy to give back to society all of their fortunes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top 5 Books
- De Chelle Allen en 12-31-18
De: Andrew Carnegie
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Cornelius Vanderbilt - The Commodore: Insight and Analysis Into the Life and Success of America's First Tycoon
- Business Biographies and Memoirs - Titans of Industry
- De: J.R. MacGregor
- Narrado por: Kevin Kollins
- Duración: 3 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 55
Cornelius Vanderbilt I had no illusions about his life. He didn’t start out with grand plans and ungodly greed. He merely stepped in this world one foot at a time, one boat at a time, one market at a time - one day at a time. He worked 16 hours a day, seven days a week. He worked hard and played hard. When all was said and done, though, he was a simple man who pushed the world of transportation to be all it could be - to be what it is today. Vanderbilt was a man of steel, and we can learn incredible things from him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravo
- De Arthur Starnes en 09-18-19
De: J.R. MacGregor
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Floodpath
- The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
- De: Jon Wilkman
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 55
Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind LA noir fictions like the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible story
- De C. Jackson en 04-07-21
De: Jon Wilkman
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Lincoln on the Verge
- Thirteen Days to Washington
- De: Ted Widmer
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Ted Widmer
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 711
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 621
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 619
As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for Washington and his inauguration - an inauguration Southerners have vowed to prevent by any means necessary. Drawing on new research, this account reveals the president-elect as a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, foiling an assassination attempt, and forging an unbreakable bond with the American people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A perfect listen for our divided times.
- De Jonathan W White en 12-06-20
De: Ted Widmer
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Love and Hate in Jamestown
- John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
- De: David A. Price
- Narrado por: Josh Innerst
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Drawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Company - which financed the settlement of Jamestown - David Price tells a tale of cowardice and courage, stupidity and brilliance, tragedy and costly triumph. He takes us into the day-to-day existence of the English men and women whose charge was to find gold and a route to the Orient, and who found, instead, hardship and wretched misery. Death, in fact, became the settlers' most faithful companion, and their infighting was ceaseless.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five Star History!
- De Damian en 08-13-23
De: David A. Price
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 434
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 366
Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city - is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing - and have done - with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook Version is the Best!
- De semarla en 01-31-21
De: Simon Winchester
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Paris, City of Dreams
- Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann, and the Creation of Paris
- De: Mary McAuliffe
- Narrado por: Tim H. Dixon
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 32
Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III’s Second Empire into the beloved city of today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding! Entertaining and informative
- De SF Insider en 11-03-22
De: Mary McAuliffe
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Electric City
- The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
During the Roaring Twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be 10 times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Feels incomplete
- De M en 12-12-23
De: Thomas Hager
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Engineering America
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- rce2md
- 01-24-21
story of a gifted engineer with social short comin
this is an amazing piece of history tying in the social decisions at the time with an extremely talented engineer. I wholeheartedly enjoyed and recommend this book
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