Morse, the artist and telegraph inventor of New York City and Pougheepsie, is no easy subject. Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., Curator of American Painting at the National Gallery, observes in a new introduction that the difficulty arises because of "the virtually irreconcilable complexities and contradictions of his character, his mind, and his achievments. It is echoed by the New York Times Book Review which praised the author for whitewashing nothing: "It is a very human Morse that emerges from Mr. Mabee's pages." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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"Excellent, authoritative, impressive." -- New York Times, February 1, 1943
"Mr. Mabee whitewashes nothing.... It is a very human Morse that emerges from Mr. Mabee's pages." -- New York Times Book Review, February 21, 1943
"Objective, slyly humorous and somewhat ironic...A moving picture of a man in continuous motion." -- Chicago Sun, March 7, 1943
"Mr. Mabee whitewashes nothing.... It is a very human Morse that emerges from Mr. Mabee's pages." -- New York Times Book Review, February 21, 1943
"Objective, slyly humorous and somewhat ironic...A moving picture of a man in continuous motion." -- Chicago Sun, March 7, 1943
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Carleton Mabee was born in Shanghai, China, and recieved his BA from Bates College in Maine, his PhD from Columbia University (in American History). He has taught history at Clarkson College, Potsdam, New York, and State University College, New Paltz, New York, but is now retired from teaching. His Books include the Pulitzer Prize winning The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel B. Morse, The Seaway Story (a history of the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence navigation and power development), Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War ( Ansfield-Wolf Award), Black Education in New York State from Colonial to Modern Times (John Ben Snow Prize), A Quaker Speaks from the Black Experience: The Life and Selected Writings of Barrington Dunbar (with Susan Mabee Newhouse), Sojourner Truth: Slave, Prophet, Legend (Outstanding Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights), and Listen to the Whistle: An Anecdotal History of the! Walkill Valley Railroad in Ulster and Orange Counties, New York.
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I have sort of been trying to read the Pulitzer prize winning books. I have read all the fiction Pulitzer winners. This book won the Pulitzer prize for biography for 1944, and I have now read 60 of the Pulitzer biography prize winners, which leaves unread about 30 of them. Morse was born 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Mass., and died 2 April 1882 in New York City. He was a noted painter but got to thinking about using electricity to send messages, and while not the first to consider that, he felt he was and had a major role in developing the electric telegraph. He scarcely made a living as a painter, but when his right to his patent for the telegraph was upheld by the Supreme Court in Reilly v. Morse, 56 U.S. 62 (1853) he had it made and lived well for the rest of his life. While not an outstanding biography it is well-reseaarched and reasonably well written and is worth reading. [The abbreviation for "mister" is often written in this book or in quotes from contemporary documents as "M.r" which I don't recall ever seeing before. Is that the way Mister was abbreviated in the past and when was that usage dropped? Doe anyone know?]
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LIKE millions of Americans, Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on a small-town main street in a rented house. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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LIKE millions of Americans, Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on a small-town main street in a rented house. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
telegraph bill, telegraph history, telegraph rights, first daguerreotype, first telegraph line, foreign conspiracy, telegraph instruments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, New Haven, National Academy, New England, Van Buren, Associated Press, Congress Hall, Native American, New Orleans, Attorney General, City Hall, Locust Grove, Town Hill, Secretary of the Treasury, American Academy, American Company, Cyrus Field, Supreme Court, New Hampshire, Patent Office, Professor Silliman, Roman Church, White House, Benjamin Silliman New!
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