WHERE EAGLES FLY FREE is based on the true story of Thomas Wright and his young wife Annie who are driven from their home in England to the shores of America. They arrive just as the country is pulling itself up out of the ashes of civil war and entering the greatest economic boom in American history. Thomas, a brilliant engineer and leader of men is thrown into America's rush west with the construction of the transcontinental railroad from New York to San Francisco that will help bind America together into the greatest country the world had ever known.
We follow Tom and Annie chasing their American dream across the Atlantic, up rivers, over plains and mountains, through Indian uprisings, western disasters and their crucial involvement in the greatest technological feat of the nineteenth century, tying the frontiers of America's wild west to the gilded age of New York City.
This is a masterfully told story of the great sweep of human desire for freedom, liberty and western expansion for land at a time when Abraham Lincoln described America as, "the last best hope on earth." It is a fast-moving story of adventure, romance, greed, sacrifice, faith, family and the courage of these immigrants to push aside fear in a life and death confrontation with arguably the most despicable robber-baron of 19th century America.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Dicke: 38 mm
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979-8-218-49773-6 (9798218497736)
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David Jacinto was born into a family living on the wrong side of the tracks and has been a storyteller ever since. He was the first in his extended family to attend college, and as a student athlete at one of the most prestigious universities in the country, he received his degree in civil engineering. He went on to serve as a president of SM Engineering Company, held leadership roles in multiple national and international companies along the west coast of California, and was on the board of directors for a few more. He was also commandeered by the State of California on special assignment as chief engineer to help rescue California's three major utilities on the verge of bankruptcy during the highly publicized, 300-billion-dollar energy crisis in 2001. David has had numerous speaking engagements over his successful career, frequently interjecting colorful, fascinating, and humorous stories of his life experiences. Some of these stories are drawn from his ill-spent youth, some from his many business successes, and some from family experiences. But all delivered with the greatest respect for the opportunities America has afforded him and a thankfulness to those fallen leaves from the family tree of immigrants who made it all possible. Despite his business successes, he supposes his greatest achievements have been to convince the fetching Anne Gray to become his wife, the good fortune to be a part of the lives of his four wonderful children, their wives and husband, and the blessing to be Papa J to thirteen near-perfect grandchildren.
