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A biography of an American legend reveals the ambitious, uneducated, contradictory man behind the myths--a man obsessed with knowledge. By the author of To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, The Doctor-Poet. 25,000 first printing.
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"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"
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"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"
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."
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- PublisherHyperion Books
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0786860413
- ISBN 13 9780786860418
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