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Edison: Inventing the Century - Softcover

Baldwin, Neil

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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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