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NEW YORK Instances BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory fresh biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the most prolific genius in American history.

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Although Thomas Alva Edison was the most famous American of his period, and remains an international name today, he is mostly remembered only for the gift of general electric light. His invention of the 1st useful incandescent about Edison light fixture 140 years ago therefore dazzled the world-already reeling from his invention from the phonograph and a large number of other revolutionary devices-that it cast a darkness over his later on achievements. In all, this near-deaf genius (“I haven’t heard a parrot sing since I had been twelve years old”) trademarked 1,093 inventions, not including others, like the X-ray fluoroscope, that he still left unlicensed for the advantage of medicine.

One of the achievements of the staggering new biography, the first major life of Edison in a lot more than two decades, is it portrays the unknown Edison-the philosopher, the futurist, the chemist, the botanist, the wartime defense adviser, the founder of nearly 250 companies-as fully as it deconstructs the Edison of mythological memory. Edmund Morris, winner from the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Prize, brings to the duty all the interpretive acuity and literary elegance that distinguished his previous biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Ludwig truck Beethoven. A trained musician, Morris is particularly well equipped to recount Edison’s fifty-year obsession with recording technology and his pioneering improvements in the synchronization of films and sound. Morris sweeps apart conspiratorial theories positing an enmity between Edison and Nikola Tesla and presents proof their mutually admiring, if wary, romantic relationship.

Enlightened by seven many years of study among the five million pages of original files conserved in Edison’s huge laboratory at West Orange, NJ, and privileged usage of family papers still kept in trust, Morris can be able to bring his subject to life around the page-the adored yet autocratic and often neglectful husband of two wives and father of six children. If the fantastic guy who emerges from it really is less a sentimental hero than an overwhelming force of character, powered onward by compulsive creativeness, then Edison reaches last getting his biographical credited.