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The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip
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A “fascinating slice of rarely considered American history” (Booklist) - the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison - whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life.
In 1914, Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited Thomas Edison in Florida and toured the Everglades. The following year Ford, Edison, and tire-maker Harvey Firestone joined together on a summer camping trip and decided to call themselves the Vagabonds. They would continue their summer road trips until 1925, when they announced that their fame made it too difficult for them to carry on.
Although the Vagabonds traveled with an entourage of chefs, butlers, and others, this elite fraternity also had a serious purpose: to examine the conditions of America’s roadways and improve the practicality of automobile travel. Cars were unreliable, and the roads were even worse. But newspaper coverage of these trips was extensive, and as cars and roads improved, the summer trip by automobile soon became a desired element of American life.
The Vagabonds is “a portrait of America’s burgeoning love affair with the automobile” (NPR) but it also sheds light on the important relationship between the older Edison and the younger Ford, who once worked for the famous inventor. The road trips made the automobile ubiquitous and magnified Ford’s reputation, even as Edison’s diminished. The automobile would transform the American landscape, the American economy, and the American way of life and Guinn brings this seminal moment in history to vivid life.
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A fresh look at Lady Bird Johnson that upends her image as a plain Jane who was married for her money and mistreated by Lyndon. This Lady Bird worked quietly behind the scenes through every campaign, every illness, and a trying presidency as a key strategist, fundraiser, barnstormer, peacemaker, and indispensable therapist.
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Lady Bird & btw Lyndon
- De Richard en 11-27-15
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The Defining Moment
- FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
- De: Jonathan Alter
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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In this dramatic and fascinating account, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter shows how Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his first 100 days in office to lift the country from the despair and paralysis of the Great Depression and transform the American presidency.
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Very infomative, and also refreshingly honest
- De Andy en 02-19-09
De: Jonathan Alter
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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
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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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A perfect listen for our divided times.
- De Jonathan W White en 12-06-20
De: Ted Widmer
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The Bully Pulpit
- Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- De: Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 36 h y 42 m
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Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft. With the help of the "muckraking" press, Roosevelt had wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupting money brokers. Roosevelt led a revolution that he bequeathed to Taft only to see it compromised as Taft surrendered to money men and big business. The rupture led Roosevelt to run against Taft for president, an ultimately futile race that gave power away to the Democrats.
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Makes You Forget You Live in the 21st Century Good
- De Cynthia en 01-11-14
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- De: Robert A. Caro
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 40 h y 29 m
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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The Best of all Biographies
- De David C. Daggett en 12-14-13
De: Robert A. Caro
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Only Yesterday
- An Informal History of the 1920s
- De: Frederick Lewis Allen
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels, but they were also bringing about major changes in the social and political structure of their country. Only Yesterday is a fond, witty, penetrating biography of this restless decade, a delightful reminiscence for those who can remember and a fascinating firsthand look for those who've only heard.
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Loved this book
- De Matthew M. Kayes en 06-11-07
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Neither Snow nor Rain
- A History of the United States Postal Service
- De: Devin Leonard
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Few institutions are as loved, as loathed, and as historically important as the United States Postal Service, the subject of this landmark century-spanning social, political, and economic history. The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, 40 percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese and easily outpacing the Germans and British. And the USPS has a storied history.
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Woa!, the post office's history is America
- De anon en 12-06-16
De: Devin Leonard
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Panama Fever
- De: Matthew Parker
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman, William Dufris
- Duración: 17 h y 43 m
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The building of the Panama Canal was one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. A tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine, Panama Fever charts the challenges that marked the long, labyrinthine road to the building of the canal. Drawing on a wealth of new materials and sources, Matthew Parker brings to life the men who recognized the impact a canal would have on global politics and economics.
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Good book, marginal narrator
- De CmH - HB, CA en 06-02-08
De: Matthew Parker
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I Invented the Modern Age
- The Rise of Henry Ford and the Most Important Car Ever Made
- De: Richard Snow
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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In many ways, Henry Ford's story is well-known; in many more ways, it is not. Richard Snow masterfully weaves together a fascinating narrative of Ford's rise to fame through his greatest invention, the Model T. A highly pleasurable listen, filled with scenes and incidents from Ford's life, I Invented the Modern Age shows Richard Snow at the height of his powers as a popular historian and reclaims from history Henry Ford, the remarkable man who, indeed, invented the modern world as we know it.
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A Complicated Man
- De Jean en 11-23-13
De: Richard Snow
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Self Made
- Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
- De: A'Lelia Bundles
- Narrado por: A'Lelia Bundles
- Duración: 16 h y 23 m
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The daughter of slaves, Madam C.J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then - with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for Black women - everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: Building a storied beauty empire from the ground up that would be run by four generations of Walker women until its sale in 1985.
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Please read the book and not rely on the Netflix series
- De Sweet Pea's Mommy en 04-27-20
De: A'Lelia Bundles
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Divided Highways
- Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
- De: Tom Lewis
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape.
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Lots of interesting facts. Poor narration
- De Richard en 06-01-21
De: Tom Lewis
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Emmy-award winning gadfly Mike Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America’s number-one short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, and insights. It’s a delightful collection of mysteries. A mosaic. A memoir. A charming, surprising must-have. Mike Rowe’s The Way I Heard It collects 35 fascinating stories “for the curious mind with a short attention span”.
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- His Life and Universe
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Why we think it’s a great listen: You thought he was a stodgy scientist with funny hair, but Isaacson and Hermann reveal an eloquent, intense, and selfless human being who not only shaped science with his theories, but politics and world events in the 20th century as well. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos.
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Surprise: Two books in one!
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- De: Walter Isaacson
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In best-selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time and ours. The most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself.
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Good book, not crazy about the narrator
- De Cathi en 07-20-13
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Feels incomplete
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Bravo!
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I could listen to Mike read all day. And I am!
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Why we think it’s a great listen: You thought he was a stodgy scientist with funny hair, but Isaacson and Hermann reveal an eloquent, intense, and selfless human being who not only shaped science with his theories, but politics and world events in the 20th century as well. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos.
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- Charles
- 03-19-22
Nice book. Didn’t care for narrator.
Interesting story, but annoyed by narrator trying to sound like Edison, Ford and Firestone rather than just reading the words.
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- John
- 05-30-23
A Bit Tedious, But Interesting
This is not a bad book, but it meanders along, kind of like a road trip, which I guess is apropos. It is often repetitive and there are times you feel like asking "are we there yet?"
The history will be interesting for those who know little about Ford and Edison. At the same time, the "vagabonds" took their trips when they were a little past their prime, which may explain why the book is not exactly riveting.
The narration is quite good.
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- jerry d
- 08-06-19
facinating
was aware of their individual achievements but had no idea of how their friendships impacted our culture. thoroughly enjoyable.
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- Kimberly Wilcox
- 07-03-23
Loved it
The history, the friendship, the inventions, makes a wonderful story. Edison, Firestone and Ford. I would love to imagine the original world they proposed. No planned obsolescence, quality to last a lifetime. Wow, governmental greed won out and today we have the disposable economy they warned about 100 years ago.
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- Brandon
- 12-27-21
Very interesting read with great performance!
If you enjoy automotive history and the brilliant innovative minds that shaped everything around close and broad to it, then you will enjoy this book. The first-hand perspective really captivates the listener in to what the characters are like, what they do, and who they are. A great read if you like what you see from the brief description.
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- Joe K
- 12-16-24
Great history lesson
Sometimes too much detail, although necessary to understand situation and background . Otherwise, it helps us appreciate these individuals and their contributions to society and history.
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- Carol B.
- 05-18-22
Very interesting
Growing up in Dearborn, Michigan, I thought I knew a lot about Henry Ford. This book showed me how much more there was to learn about him and the delightful Thomas Edison. My book club read this book. And since we all still live in Michigan, we made a road trip to the Henry Ford museum to see the vagabonds display. I highly recommend this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-26-25
Hits on every level
Excellent narration, and timely shift between the group and each individual history. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
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- Derrick C.
- 01-18-20
Wonderful story about Americanism.
Warts and all. Frames reality for what it is worth. These men and the support and guidance of the women in their life will never be duplicated, but serve as inspiration to achieve greatness.
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- Brian
- 02-02-22
Great story
this book brings to life some great stories about some of the most important men who impacted America
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