The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made
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Language: English
Published by Viking Adult, 2002
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- Title
- The Man Who Changed How Boys and Toys Were Made
- Author
- Watson, Bruce
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670031348
- ISBN 13
- 9780670031344
A fascinating portrait of the man who invented the erector set focuses on the life and times of A. C. Gilbert, the Yale graduate and marketing genius who created a toy that would radically change the market, and successive generations of boys. 17,500 first printing.
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About the Author
Bruce Watson is a journalist whose articles have been published in Smithsonian, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Examiner, Reader's Digest, and Yankee Magazine. He won an Associated Press Best Local Column in New England Award in 1988 and the Deems Taylor Music Writing Award from ASCAP in 2000.
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