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“They Made America”, By Harold Evans
Annotations by Syndetics Solutions, LLC. unless otherwise noted.
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“African-American Firsts in Science and Technology”
by Webster, Raymond B.
Presents capsule accounts of notable first achievements by African Americans, arranged in the categories "Agriculture and Everyday Life," "Dentistry and Nursing," "Life Science," "Math and Engineering," "Medicine," "Physical Science," and "Transportation."
“The Magic Kingdom : Walt Disney and the American Way of Life”
by Watts, Steven
Part biography and part cultural analysis, Steven Watt’s The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt". Watts also digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing fresh insight into his peculiar psyche -- his genuine folksiness and warmth, his domineering treatment of colleagues and friends, his deepest prejudices and passions. Full of colorful sketches of daily life at the Disney Studio and tales about the creation of Disneyland and Disney World, The Magic Kingdom offers a definitive view of one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century.
“George Eastman”
by Holmes, Burnham
Describes the life of the man who revolutionized photography by developing a camera simple enough for anyone to use.
”Her Dream of Dreams : The Rise and Triumph of Madam C. J. Walker”
by Lowry, Beverly
Lowry (creative nonfiction, George Mason U.) tells how a child born in a sharecropper's cabin to former slaves invented a hair- care product for African-American women, sold it successfully in a city she had just moved to, turned her little business into an empire, renovated a Harlem townhouse, filled it with treasures, and entertained there the most influential figures of her time. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
“Media Man : Ted Turner's Improbable Empire”
by Auletta, Ken
Ted Turner, the “mouth from the South,'' revolutionized television. Grasping cable's potential in its infancy, Turner parlayed a tiny UHF station in Atlanta into a national cable superstation; invented the world's first 24-hour cable news channel, CNN; and transformed the MGM film library into lucrative cable networks. Although Turner sold his company to Time Warner and was eventually ousted, his influence is still pervasive in the business world through his philanthropy. Ken Auletta, whose New Yorker profile of Turner won a National Magazine Award for Best Profile in 2001, has written the first book-length retrospective on the volatile Turner and his roller-coaster career, and received the active cooperation of Turner himself, including fifteen hours of taped interviews. Media Man is a captivating view of a daring entrepreneur, a pioneering company, and the industry they helped create.
“The Boy Genius and the Mogul : The Untold Story of Television”
by Stashower, Daniel
A long-overdue look at the life of television's true inventor--a 14-year-old farm boy from Idaho--and his battle against RCA's David Sarnoff to capitalize on the discovery.
“The Google Story”
byVise, David A.
"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than Disney's and General Motors' combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be run by a former chef for the Grateful Dead, and its employees traverse the firm's colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates." "The Google Story is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world's most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere." "In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, "change the world" through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free." "While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google's quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database." "Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft's dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders' mantra: don't be evil."--BOOK JACKET.
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