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From the times of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to perfect, invent, build, tinker, and wager the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana will take us on the 400-year journey of this spirit of technology and ambition through some Next Big Things - the innovations, techniques, and business that drove American background forwards: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking, to trip, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the switch of the 21st hundred years. The result is an exciting alternative background of modern America that reframes happenings, trends, and folks we thought we knew through the prism of the value that, for good or for bad, this nation keeps dearest: capitalism. In a winning, accessible style, Bhu Srinivasan boldly takes on four centuries of American organization, revealing the sudden connections that web page link them. We learn how Andrew Carnegie's early on job as a telegraph messenger boy paved just how for his command of the metal empire that could make him one of the country's richest men; how the gunmaker Remington reinvented itself in the postwar years to market typewriters; how the inner workings of the Mafia mirrored the trend of loan consolidation and rules in more traditional business; and how a 1950s infrastructure charge triggered some happenings that produced one of America's most enduring brands: KFC. Reliving the heady early days of Silicon Valley, we could reminded that the start-up can be an idea as old as America itself. Entertaining, eye-opening, and sweeping in its reach, Americana can be an exhilarating new work of narrative background.
