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Edison Inventing the Century
Edison Inventing the Century
Author: Neil Baldwin
Using unprecedented access to Edison family papers and years of research at the Edison corporate archives, Neil Baldwin offers a revealing portrait of one of America's seminal inventors: a man whose imagination, dynamism, entrepreneurial brilliance epitomized the American dream as he became a victim of its darker side. "Baldwin has demytho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786860418
ISBN-10: 0786860413
Publication Date: 2/1995
Pages: 531
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Publisher: Hyperion Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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A remarkable study of a genius. Neil Baldwin presents America in a man - as straange, obsessed, tangled and brilliant as the age he literally illuminated. Baldwin has taken Edison out of the waxworks and restored him to humanity. A truly fine biography of Edison.


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