Description: The website for William Rosen's "The Most Powerful Idea in the World"
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pinterest linkedin facebook twitter goodreads The Most Powerful Idea in the World A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention Home Q&A Excerpts Reviews and Errata Contact "Staggering...a fascinating, wide-ranging narrative"* of the birth of the modern world *Kirkus Reviews (starred) The U.S. Edition, publishing June 1st 2010, from Random House In less than a century, in a single place, human welfare and prosperity, which had barely changed in the preceding 10,000 years, entered an era of sustained and explosi
Friday, July 24th 9:00PM EST Interview on John Batchelor Show, WABC-AM 770-AM, New York Tuesday, June 8th, 8:30AM EST: Interview on The Shelly Irwin Show, WGVU-FM, Grand Rapid MI Monday, June 7th, 8:10AM EST: Interview on Lanigan & Malone, WJMI-FM, Cleveland 8:30AM EST Interview with Dr. Alvin Augustus Jones, WCBQ-AM, Oxford NC The Most Powerful Idea in the World has been chosen as an Alternate Selection of the History Book Club, BOMC2, and The Military Book Club