THE ONE BEFORE THIS
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THE ONE BEFORE THIS Book 1
4 parts · 15 h 59 min
Pennsylvania and New York, 1857 to 1900; Illinois and California, 1902 to 1961. Milton Hershey ran candy shops into the ground in Philadelphia, Chicago and New York across ten years in which the United States had no bankruptcy law and a failed man owed his debts forever.
THE ONE BEFORE THIS Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 48 min
Paterson, Detroit and Flint, 1830 to 1947. Samuel Colt patents a revolving pistol at twenty-one, raises money from his cousins, builds a gun mill on the Passaic, and watches it sold at auction six years later.
THE ONE BEFORE THIS Book 3
4 parts · 13 h 49 min
Philadelphia, Woburn and Paris, 1800 to 1860; Worcester, Auburn and Roswell, 1882 to 1945. Charles Goodyear failed at hardware, was arrested at his creditors' request more than once, and spent three decades chasing a way to keep India rubber from melting, which he found and could not hold.
THE ONE BEFORE THIS Book 4
4 parts · 16 h 3 min
Britain, 1806 to 2025. James Dyson says he built five thousand one hundred and twenty-seven versions of a vacuum cleaner in a coach house at Bath before one of them worked, and he says the engineer he reached for through those years was Isambard Kingdom Brunel, dead since 1859. The two methods are opposites.
THE ONE BEFORE THIS Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 16 min
Four men, four wildernesses, and from inside none of them any sign of a rescue. Howard Robard Hughes failed at law, at lead and zinc, and at oil for fifteen years before a two-cone bit chewed fourteen feet of hard rock in eleven hours at Goose Creek.
THE ONE BEFORE THIS Book 6
4 parts · 15 h 38 min
The United States, 1981 to 2024. A climbing hardware works in Ventura files for court protection and is bought by its own employees. A designer on Seventh Avenue loses his royalty stream and goes into reorganization at thirty-three.