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Edison

by Edmund Morris

This biography explores Thomas Alva Edison's prolific career as an inventor and businessman alongside his complex personal life. It draws on extensive archival research to examine his legacy as a chemist, botanist, and wartime adviser.

Accession 28552 ISBN 9780812993110 Publisher Random House
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Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his time, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the gift of universal electric light. One of the achievements of this staggering new biography, the first major life of Edison in more than twenty years, is that it portrays the unknown Edison-the philosopher, the futurist, the chemist, the botanist, the wartime defence adviser, the founder of nearly 250 companies-as fully as it deconstructs the Edison of mythological memory. -- publisher's blurb

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