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Firestar.: The firestar saga
(eAudiobook)

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Series:
Firestar. bk. 1
Published:
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2013.
Format:
eAudiobook
Edition:
Unabridged.
Content Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (31hr., 19 min.)) : digital.
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Description

It is the dawn of the twenty-first century, and America is in trouble. Public schools breed apathy and ignorance, and politics has become the art of the quick fix. There is one woman, though, who has both the vision and the money to leverage change. Mariesa Gorley van Huyten, heiress to one of the great American fortunes, founds an educational subsidiary called Mentor Academies and begins to subcontract public school systems in order to raise a new, less cynical generation. But her clandestine program is much larger than that: it also includes the founding of a private space program, the eventual construction of an orbital power station, and the revival of technological innovation on Earth. Firestar is a chronicle of private enterprise and individual initiative-the story of one woman's quest that becomes the focus for a whole new world. Mariesa's program lets teachers strive to teach, hires astronauts who have no government space program to fly for, and provides productive outlets for the idealistic desires of the rich and powerful-at least those who remain sane enough to have such desires in the face of a crumbling America. And it just might work.

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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781982464332, 198246433X

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Read by Malcolm Hillgartner.
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It is the dawn of the twenty-first century, and America is in trouble. Public schools breed apathy and ignorance, and politics has become the art of the quick fix. There is one woman, though, who has both the vision and the money to leverage change. Mariesa Gorley van Huyten, heiress to one of the great American fortunes, founds an educational subsidiary called Mentor Academies and begins to subcontract public school systems in order to raise a new, less cynical generation. But her clandestine program is much larger than that: it also includes the founding of a private space program, the eventual construction of an orbital power station, and the revival of technological innovation on Earth. Firestar is a chronicle of private enterprise and individual initiative-the story of one woman's quest that becomes the focus for a whole new world. Mariesa's program lets teachers strive to teach, hires astronauts who have no government space program to fly for, and provides productive outlets for the idealistic desires of the rich and powerful-at least those who remain sane enough to have such desires in the face of a crumbling America. And it just might work.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Flynn, M., & Hillgartner, M. (2013). Firestar. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Flynn, Michael and Malcolm, Hillgartner. 2013. Firestar. [United States], Blackstone Publishing.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Flynn, Michael and Malcolm, Hillgartner, Firestar. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Flynn, Michael, and Malcolm Hillgartner. Firestar. Unabridged. [United States], Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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