Download The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible AudioBook Free
Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times best-selling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, provides his first book about America: a remarkable popular background that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and relationship the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. How performed America become "one land, indivisible"? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we identify today? To answer these questions, Winchester uses in the footsteps of America's most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the fantastic Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. He treks huge swaths of place, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Rochester to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, Seattle to Anchorage, adding the amazing people who played out a pivotal role in creating today's USA. Throughout, he ponders whether the traditional work of uniting the Says has succeeded, and what level. The Men Who United the Says is a fresh look at the way in which the most effective nation on the planet came together.
