Jun 10
20
From Publishers Weekly
These 47 articles, gathered from Gordon’s 10 years as an American Heritage columnist, cover the post-Revolutionary period through the 1950s. Some pieces retell familiar stories, such as how Samuel Slater memorized the design of the cotton mill machinery that had made England an 18th-century superpower, smuggled the technology from England to the U.S. and helped to launch the Industrial Revolution here; how Isaac Merit Singer synthesized others’ efforts and (more…)
