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Introduction 1
Success 11
Almost Famous 13
The Wizard of Menlo Park 39
Flight 59
Getting Ahead 76
Stagecraft 98
Immersion 119
Life After 141
Starting Anew 143
Battle Lost 165
Fun 189
Kingly Privilege 211
Friend Ford 233
Letting Go 259
Epilogue 283
Notes 291
Acknowledgments 362
Index 365
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Gabriel Banyay
reviewed The Wizard of Menlo Park on October 10, 2011
The Wizard of Menlo Park
The Wizard of Menlo park is a bit about Edison the inventor, and a lot about Edison the public celebrity. His is an interesting story, but if you want to learn what really made him tick you won't get it here. In fact, it isn't clear how much he invented. Edison was part inventor, and part master of invention, in the sense that he created a major laboratory of invention, of which he was the maestro, but there were a lot of members in the orchestra. But the book,unfortunately, is more by the numbers than inventive.
If you want a really compelling book which covers some of the same territory (although not the invention of the phonograph or motion picture) I strongly recomment Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes.
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