A bunch of amateurs a search for the American character
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307990341 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0307990346 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 sound file (10 hr., 34 min., 22 sec.) : digital. - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2012.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Electronic audio file. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Peter Colburn. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 151938 KB; MP3 file size: 297860 KB). |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
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Subject: | Inventors -- United States American Dream National characteristics, American |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS. America's self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages--fiddling with everything from solar-powered cars to space elevators...