One of America’s greatest biographers (his three-volume life of Teddy Roosevelt is a classic) sadly did not live to see his final book published. Thankfully for his fans, his biography of Thomas Edison is a fascinating gallop through a very full life of one of America’s greatest inventors and entrepreneurs—and the man who we can credit with creating the foundations for much of the modern technology on which we rely today. By the end the reader is left astonished by Edison’s fertile, creative mind, and by the way that Morris is able to capture him as never before.
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