Edison – Inventing the Century with a new Preface (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Softcover

Baldwin, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226035719 ISBN 13: 9780226035710

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Synopsis

The genius of Thomas Edison is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythical figure. But how much do we really know about the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light? In this text, Neil Baldwin gives a complex portrait of the inventor - both myth and man - and an account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed.

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Review:

"Baldwin has demythologized the man and left the genius bigger than life."-David Gates, "Newsweek"

"Edison has been the subject of many earlier biographical studies, yet Mr. Baldwin sees more clearly than the rest how Edison's life was his greatest invention."-G. Pascal Zachary, "Wall Street Journal"

"In this scrupulously detailed, thoroughly captivating biography, Neil Baldwin presents America in a man--as strange, obsessed, and tangled and brilliant as the age he literally illuminated. After reading "Edison", you wonder how it is possible to understand the country without him."--Roger Rosenblatt--Roger Rosenblatt

In this scrupulously detailed, thoroughly captivating biography, Neil Baldwin presents America in a man as strange, obsessed, and tangled and brilliant as the age he literally illuminated. After reading "Edison," you wonder how it is possible to understand the country without him. --Roger Rosenblatt"

About the Author:

Neil Baldwin is an executive director of the National Book Foundation and coeditor of "The Writing Life." He is the author of critically acclaimed biographies of William Carlos Williams and Man Ray, as well as "Legends of the Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226035719
• ISBN 13: 9780226035710
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 544