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This review is from: Thomas Edison and Modern America: An Introduction with Documents (Hardcover)
"... The collection's strength is in the broad diversity of primary sources offered and the issues that Collins and Gitelman raise for student discussion. This is no mere biography of Edison the "Great Inventor." The sources include selections from Edison's memoirs, diaries, notebooks, and letters, as well as accounts of Edison and his inventions as presented by the popular media. We thus witness Edison fashioning his own self image-sometimes in contradictory ways-just as the press was turning him into a media hero. Laboratory records by Edison and his assistants chart the development of the phonograph and the use of electricity, while newspaper and magazine articles bear witness to the intense speculation surrounding the social effects Edison's inventions would create."David A. Reid, University of North Florida |
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Thomas Edison and Modern America: An Introduction with Documents by Theresa M. Collins (Hardcover - June 29, 2002)
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