A License to Steal: A Father's Genius, A Son's Revenge, But Payback has a Price

Shaw, Walter T.; Robinson, Mary Jane

ISBN 10: 097860590X / ISBN 13: 9780978605902

Published by Omega Publishing Group, Inc., New York, 2008

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SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on front end page, nice tight clean copy, only very minor shelfwear, dj in mylar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A License to Steal: A Father's Genius, A Son's Revenge, But Payback has a Price
• Publisher: Omega Publishing Group, Inc., New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 097860590X
• ISBN 13: 9780978605902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Walter T. Shaw's Autobiography - As early as the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speaker phones, conference calls and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw was leading us into a high-tech future as part of the intellectual elite, but he was repeatedly cheated by shrewd businessmen and big corporations. His son, Walter T. Shaw, was enraged by the ill treatment of his father and embraced a personal mission to even the score. Shaw Jr. would become one of the most prolific jewel thieves in U.S. history. Shaw Sr. spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of communication we take for granted today, but it was all for nothing.Tragically, only the Mafia rewarded him. Just to make ends meet for his family, he was persuaded to put his brilliance to work for the mob.

Synopsis

As early as the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Walter L Shaw was thinking of speaker phones, conference calls and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw was leading us into a high-tech future as part of the intellectual elite, but he was repeatedly cheated by shrewd businessmen and big corporations. His son, Walter T Shaw, was enraged by the ill treatment of his father and embraced a personal mission to even the score. Shaw Jr would become one of the most prolific jewel thieves in U.S. history. Shaw Sr spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of communication we take for granted today, but it was all for nothing. Tragically, only the Mafia rewarded him. Just to make ends meet for his family, he was persuaded to put his brilliance to work for the mob.