American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
      • Abbreviations
    • The Congregationalists >
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    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
      • The Legacy
      • Growing Up
      • Eleanor and Franklin
      • A Politician's Wife
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      • On Her Own
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      • History as a Story
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

BRANDS, H. W. Masters of Enterprise (1999). Focuses on the lives of twenty-five American entrepreneurs including J. P. Morgan and Bill Gates and explores the difference each made in the growth of American business.

CRINGELEY, ROBERT X. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions (1992). Makes the interesting argument that the founders of Microsoft, Apple, and other companies achieved their success largely by accident.

DEUTSCHMAN, ALAN. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs (2000). Account of Steve Jobs’s career before the iPod; excellent account of the origins of Pixar.

KIDDER, TRACY. The Soul of a New Machine (1981). The prize-winning account of the efforts of computer “whiz kids” at Data General to build a new computer.

LAMMERS, SUSAN. Programmers at Work: Interviews with 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry (1989).Personal recollections of Charles Simonyi, Bill Gates, and other software pioneers.

LEVY, STEVEN. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (1984). Colorful account of the grassroots origins of the personal computer revolution.

LINZMAYER, OWEN W. Apple Confidential 2.0 (2004). Well-researched, highly engaging history of Apple.

SLATER, ROBERT. Portraits in Silicon (1987). Biographical sketches of computer pioneers including Howard Aiken, H. Ross Perot, Ted Hoff, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates.

YOUNG, JEFFREY S., AND WILLIAM L. SIMON. iCon: Steve Jobs, the Second Greatest Second Act in the History of Business (2005). A bit “over the top” on Steve Jobs’s personal life, but abundant information about Jobs and Apple through the advent of the iPod.

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