Higher
A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City

I picked this audio up at a Library sale. I've had good luck with the random non-fiction I've picked up and I figured that if a publisher went to the effort of making it into audio format, it must be good. This was a poor use of logic on my part. The telling was disappointing. I had a hard time diff......more

What a fantastic story. As a native New Yorker, I'm rather annoyed that I never learned any of this stuff in school. This type of history must be included in the school curricula. I love history and am shaking my head as I write this because it is outrageous that kids, teenagers, and college student......more