The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic figure. But how much do we really know about the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light? Neil Baldwin gives us a complex portrait of the inventor himself both myth and man and a multifaceted account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and irrevocably changed. "
The genius of America's most prolific inventor, Thomas Edison, is widely acknowledged, and Edison himself has become an almost mythic figure. But how ...
In The American Revelation, Neil Baldwin, one of our most exciting and provocative intellectual historians, applies his formidable energies to the story of how the American Spirit developed over four centuries, through an inspiring--and unsparing--examination of selected ideals that have helped inform our culture through the vivid personalities who set the course.
Figures both familiar and forgotten illuminate this timely narrative of popular history that enlivens the current debate about America's proper role in a turbulent post-9/11 world. Though an ideal may have been...
In The American Revelation, Neil Baldwin, one of our most exciting and provocative intellectual historians, applies his formidable energies ...
Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life--and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life, fifteen of America's most influential authors discuss their own special literary choices. These unique interviews with National Book Award winners and finalists offer new insights into the many ways in which the experience of reading shapes the act of writing. Robert Stone on Joseph Conrad's Victory, Cynthia Ozick on Henry James's Washington Square, Charles Johnson on Jack London's The Sea-Wolf--each...
Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life--and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book Th...
How and why did this quintessential American folk-hero and pioneering industrialist become one of the most obsessive anti-Semites of our time - a man who devoted his immense financial resources to publishing a pernicious forgery, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion? Once Henry Ford's virulent media campaign against the Jews took off during the anxious decade following World War I, how did America's splintered Jewish community attempt to cope with the relentless tirade conducted for 91 consecutive weeks in the automobile manufacturer's personal newspaper, The Dearborn Independent? What...
How and why did this quintessential American folk-hero and pioneering industrialist become one of the most obsessive anti-Semites of our time - a man ...
