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Firebrand conservative columnist, commentator, Internet business owner, and number-one New York Times best-selling writer Michelle Malkin instructs the fascinating, little-known stories of the inventors who've contributed to American exceptionalism and scientific improvement. In July 2012 Leader Obama infamously proclaimed, "If you an enterprise - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Malkin wholeheartedly disagrees. Who Built That is a rousing tribute to the invisible American capitalists who pioneered every day inventions. They're the little big things we neglect: bottle caps and glassware, door hinges and staples, tissue newspaper, flashlights, railroad indicators, rotary printing presses, bridge cords, and even more. Malkin calls for listeners with an eclectic journey of American capitalism, from the colonial period to the Industrial Years to the present, spotlighting awe-inspiring and little-known "tinkerpreneurs" who achieved their dreams to do well by doing good. You'll learn how Paul Revere became America's first tech titan; how famous patent holders Abraham Lincoln and Make Twain championed the country's unique system of intellectual property privileges; how glass-manufacturing mavericks Edward Libbey and Mike Owens defied naysayers to revolutionize food, beverage, and pharmaceutical presentation; how penniless Croatian immigrant Anthony Maglica started his $400 million Maglite torch business in a rented storage area; and many more riveting stories that describe our country's fertile weather for scientific growth and entrepreneurship. To comprehend who we have been as people, we need first to comprehend what motivates America's standard and extraordinary producers and risk takers. Motivated by her own experience as a second-generation beneficiary of the American goal, Malkin skillfully and passionately rebuts collectivist orthodoxy to celebrate the engineers, technicians, designers, artisans, and relentless tinkerers of most backgrounds who embody our nation's soul of self-made entrepreneurialism.
