| Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action Contributor(s): Flexner, James T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0823213765 ISBN-13: 9780823213764 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1993 Annotation: First published in 1944 to unanimous praise, James Thomas Flexner's Steamboats Come True has indeed done more than stand the test of time. It remains a splendidly myth-debunking but celebratory account of 'the first American invention of world-shattering importance'--the steamboat. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding - General |
| Dewey: 623.824 |
| LCCN: 92020062 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.02" W x 9.12" (1.52 lbs) 406 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his historical books, notably his four -volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many outlets. He has written for print and television; he has been a lecturer, columnist, reviewer, and even a fiction writer. |
Contributor Bio(s): Flexner, James T.: - James Thomas Flexner is a National Book Award Laureate; recipient of a special Pulitzer Prize Citation; winner of the Society of American Historians' Parkman Prize, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "Eminence in Biography." James Thomas Flexner has won a Special Pulitzer Prize Citation, a National Book Award, and a Christopher's Award for his four-volume biography, Washignton: An Indispensable Man. A foremost man of letters, Flexner has written with equal distinction in the fields of American history, biography and art. |