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Edison : Inventing the Century, by Neil Baldwin. SIGNED. 1995 Hardcover/DJ

Edison : Inventing the Century, by Neil Baldwin. SIGNED. 1995 Hardcover/DJ

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Edison, inventing the century, by Neil Baldwin.

Publisher:
New York : Hyperion, ©1995.

Abstract:



Neil Baldwin's Edison: Inventing the Century is the first
biography of one of the seminal figures in our history to examine him as
both myth and man, assessing his remarkable accomplishments while
taking thorough measure of the paradoxes of his character. Drawing upon
unprecedented access to Edison family papers and years of research at
the Edison corporate archives, Baldwin offers a revealing portrait of
the inventor, in which we discover a man whose life epitomized the
American dream as fully as he became a victim of its darker side.

From
his years as a fragile boy hawking newspapers on trains throughout the
Midwest to his arrival in New York City as an itinerant telegrapher
seeking his fortune; from his development of the light bulb to his
spectacular electrification of lower Manhattan; from his struggles to
create the phonograph and motion picture and bring them to market to his
obsessive search for a source of natural rubber even as he was dying,
Edison: Inventing the Century is an enthralling chronicle of the most
revered figure of his time.

Alongside the esteemed scientist
stands the fiercely self-aggrandizing manufacturer of his own myth; the
man possessed by a virtually incessant flow of ideas, who often fights
brutally to protect those ideas in the marketplace; the man who publicly
preaches the values of home life while his own family is plagued by
clinical depression and alcoholism, and while his six neglected, aimless
children from two marriages try to step from his massive shadow, yet
prove, almost inevitably, to be a disappointment

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