THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST
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THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 1
4 parts · 16 h 26 min
North Carolina, New Jersey and the world's waterfronts, 1913 to 1970. Malcom McLean runs a trucking company and cannot get his trailers onto a ship without unpacking them. In 1956 he stops unpacking them.
THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 46 min
New York, the Gulf of Mexico, the Kure yard and the Persian Gulf, 1810 to 1982. Four men learned that the hull is not a vehicle but a balance sheet. Cornelius Vanderbilt bought a boat and discovered that the asset was the route.
THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 3
4 parts · 15 h 42 min
Seattle and Memphis, 1907 to 1983. A nineteen-year-old messenger named Jim Casey borrows a hundred dollars, puts boys on bicycles, and spends the next sixty years discovering that the money in delivery is not in the vehicle but in how many stops it makes between one and the next.
THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 34 min
Providence, Greenwich, Michigan and the American freight network, 1956 to 2023. Brad Jacobs leaves college early, brokers oil at twenty-three, and then spends four decades doing one thing repeatedly: finding an industry made of thousands of small family firms and buying them into a single company.
THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 11 min
Philadelphia, Palo Alto, San Mateo and the American curb, 2003 to 2025. A college sophomore begins driving warm cookies to dormitories after midnight. A graduate student and three classmates put up a one-page site to take orders for restaurants that do not deliver.
THE LAST MILE AND THE FIRST Book 6
4 parts · 13 h 13 min
Florida, Pennsylvania, California and Rwanda, 1995 to 2025. For a century the cost of moving a thing the last few miles was a person in a seat, and every attempt to lower that cost ran into the same wall. Pete Warhurst got around it by leaving the box on the driveway and driving away.