Edison: Inventing the Century - Hardcover
Using unprecedented access to Edison family papers and years of research at the Edison corporate archives, Neil Baldwin offers a revealing portrait of one of America's seminal inventors: a man whose imagination, dynamism, entrepreneurial brilliance epitomized the American dream as he became a victim of its darker side.
"Baldwin has demythologized the man and left the genius bigger than life." --Newsweek
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The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic figure. But how much do we really know about the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the mastermind who gave us electric light? In this fascinating biography, Neil Baldwin gives us a complex portrait of the inventor himself-both myth and man-and a multifaceted account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.
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Neil Baldwin is an executive director of the National Book Foundation and coeditor ofThe Writing Life. He is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of William Carlos Williams and Man Ray, as well asLegends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God.
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- PublisherHyperion
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0786860413
- ISBN 13 9780786860418
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