2 science history books

[Monte Davis]

I'm waiting for the Vaclav Smil books (Creating the 20th Century and
Transforming the 20th Century) -- but Michael Lesy's Dreamland arrived this
morning, and I'm doubling down on my earlier speculative bet that it was a
source for AtD.

My not-coincidence-o-meter is pegged by too many pictures of Telluride,
Durango, leafy rural roads near Cleveland, battleships, etc... punctuated
with a capsule timeline 1900-1910 of the US economy, labor unrest, pop
culture.