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Title: Here Is Where
Subtitle: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
Author: Andrew Carroll
Narrator: Andrew Carroll
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-14-13
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 38 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carrolls fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of Americas 50 states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous occurred.
Sparking the idea for this audiobook was Carrolls visit to the spot where Abraham Lincolns son was once saved by the brother of Lincolns assassin. Carroll wondered, How many other unmarked places are there where intriguing events unfolded - or where extraordinary men and women made their mark? And then it came to him: the idea of spotlighting great hidden history by traveling the length and breadth of the United States, searching for buried historical treasure.
In Here Is Where, Carroll drives, flies, boats, hikes, kayaks and trains into the past, and in so doing, uncovers stories that inspire thoughtful contemplation, occasional hilarity and often, awe. Among the things we learn:
Featured prominently in Here Is Where are an abundance of firsts (including the first elevator, the first modern anesthesia, the first cremation, and the first murder conviction based on forensic evidence), outrages (from massacres, to forced sterilizations, to kidnappings) and breakthroughs (from the invention of the M-1 carbine to the recovery of the last existing sample of Spanish Flu to the building of the rocket that made possible space travel).
A profound reminder that the ground we walk is often the top sedimentary layer of amazing past events, Here Is Where represents just the first step in an ongoing project that will recruit citizen historians to preserve what should be remembered.
Critic Reviews:
"Carroll takes readers on an eye-opening and entertaining grand tour of America in this lively exploration of lesser-known or overlooked historical sites. From birthplaces to gravesites and high points to low, from those that inspired inventions to those that sparked change, he leaves no stone unturned or landmark unvisited.... Part travelogue, part history, this book should be required reading for anyone interested in America's past." (Publishers Weekly)
"Andrew Carroll has always been a top-notch editor. I had no idea he was as fine a storyteller.... Great storytelling can be wonderfully addictive. Here Is Where captured me completely - I couldn't put it down." (Jeff Shaara, New York Times best-selling author of Gods and Generals, Last Full Measure and Blaze of Glory )
"Here is Where is remarkable for the painstaking research on display and its yield of rescued-from-obscurity stories. Many of the true incidents Andrew Carroll has uncovered aren't just surprising but powerful.... Others are simply laugh-out-loud funny, but all are described with considerable skill. America has always had among its citizenry a number of individuals whose legacy is immense but unappreciated, and Carroll has truly done them justice." (Steven Pressfield, best-selling author of Gates of Fire, Tides of War and Killing Rommel)
