Books written by Earl Swift
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One Buck at a Time: An Insider's Account of How Dollar Tree Remade American Retail
Even Brock was surprised.One Buck at a Time is an informal history of budget retail and a how-to on doing it right.
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The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
From the speed demon who inspired a primitive web of dirt auto trails to the largely forgotten technocrats who planned the system years before Ike reached the White House to the city dwellers who resisted the concrete juggernaut when it ...
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Finally shining a deserved spotlight on these overlooked characters and the missions they created, Across the Airless Wilds is a celebration of human genius, perseverance, and daring.
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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
What emerges is the poignant tale of a world that has, quite nearly, gone by—and a leading-edge report on the coming fate of countless coastal communities.
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Auto Biography: A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream
A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through ...
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
"In this follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, Earl Swift rediscovers the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions-distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving ...
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Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
New York Times bestseller Chesapeake Requiem, Earl Swift rediscovers the final three Apollo Moon landings, arguing that these overlooked missions--distinguished by the use of the revolutionary Lunar Roving Vehicle--were the pinnacle of ...
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Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
What emerges is the poignant tale of a world that has, quite nearly, gone by—and a leading-edge report on the coming fate of countless coastal communities.
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Journey on the James: Three Weeks through the Heart of Virginia
Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past ...