The Spirit of Invention: The Story of the Thinkers, Creators, and Dreamers That Formed Our Nation - Hardcover
Synopsis
Explores the role of innovation as a driving characteristic of Americans from all historical periods and walks of life, in a narrative tribute that celebrates the examples of such individuals as Gertrude Forbes, Cromwell Dixon, and Thomas Edison.
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This book is an absolute must-read account of the human mind, spirit, and hand at their best, transforming plants into food and fabric, lakes into light, tubs into tunes, toys into tutors. Read it and you will be ready to roll up your sleeves--Frank R. Wilson; author, The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture.
ulie Fenster has uncovered and tracked the lives of many often obscure people who have laid the ground for the American spirit of invention."--Peter Friess, President, The Tech Museum, Silicon Valley
About the Author
Julie M. Fenster is an award-winning author and historian, specializing in the American story. In 2006 her book Parish Priest, written with coauthor Douglas Brinkley, was a New York Times bestseller for seven weeks. She also wrote Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It, which won the prestigious Anesthesia Foundation Award for Best Book. Fenster is the author of six other books, including Race of the Century: The Heroic True Story of the 1908 New York to Paris Auto Race and The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President.
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