Edison: Inventing the Century - Softcover
Exploring the life and personality of one of America's greatest twentieth-century innovators, this unique biography examines the ambitions and obsessions that inspired the genius. Reprint. PW.
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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 date1996
- ISBN 10 0786881194
- ISBN 13 9780786881192
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages544
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