Bunch of Amateurs: Inside America's Hidden World of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Job Creators
by Jack Hitt
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What is it that drives the success of America and the identity of its people? Jack Hitt thinks it's because we're all a bunch of amateurs.
America's self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages—fiddling with everything from solar-powered cars to space elevators. In Bunch of Amateurs, Jack Hitt draws a fascinating look at amateurs and their pursuits—from a tattooed young woman in the Bay Area trying to splice a jellyfish's glow-in-the-dark gene into common yogurt to a space fanatic on the brink of developing the next generation of telescopes from his mobile home.
Beginning with Ben Franklin's kite, Hitt argues that history is bound up in a cycle of amateur surges, each one driving us to rediscover the true heart of the American dream. Amateur pursuits are too often criticized as outdated practices until a Mark Zuckerberg steps out of his dorm room with the rare but crucial success story. According to Hitt, we are poised at another frontier that will lead, once more, to the newest incarnation of the American dream.
America's self-invented tinkerers are back at it in their metaphorical garages—fiddling with everything from solar-powered cars to space elevators. In Bunch of Amateurs, Jack Hitt draws a fascinating look at amateurs and their pursuits—from a tattooed young woman in the Bay Area trying to splice a jellyfish's glow-in-the-dark gene into common yogurt to a space fanatic on the brink of developing the next generation of telescopes from his mobile home.
Beginning with Ben Franklin's kite, Hitt argues that history is bound up in a cycle of amateur surges, each one driving us to rediscover the true heart of the American dream. Amateur pursuits are too often criticized as outdated practices until a Mark Zuckerberg steps out of his dorm room with the rare but crucial success story. According to Hitt, we are poised at another frontier that will lead, once more, to the newest incarnation of the American dream.
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JACK HITT is a contributing editor to the New York Times Magazine , Harper’s , and public radio’s This American Life . He also writes for R olling Stone, GQ, Wired, and, of course, Garden & Gun . He has won the Peabody Award, as well as the Livingston and Pope Foundation Awards. His stories can be heard on This American Life ’s greatest hits CD, Lies, Sissies & Fiascoes , and The Best Crimes and Misdemeanors: Stories from The Moth . He is the author of a solo theater performance, currently touring, entitled Making Up the Truth .
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- Title
- Bunch of Amateurs: Inside America's Hidden World of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Job Creators
- Author
- Jack Hitt
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0307393763
- ISBN 13
- 9780307393760
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- Crown Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013-05-14
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