Edison: Inventing the Century

New York: Hyperion Books, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd Printing Stated Second Edition. Note at top of front jacket flap notes that this is an alternate selection of BOMC and History Book Club, however there is no indication that this is a BCE; there is also a price on the front flap. Hard cover in very good condition. Dark gray boards with moss green spine cloth silver gilt spine lettering. Gray end papers. Former owner's name stamped in black at top of front free end paper. Interior text block clean & tight with no writing or other markings noted. Dust jacket very good; not price clipped. Concludes with sections: Notes & Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgments, and an extensive Index. 531 numbered pages. * From the front jacket flap, ""In Thomas Edison, America found its first true natvie-born genius, a man who fulfilled the nation's dreams about its potential while extravagantly personifying its cherished values. Imagination, dynamism, entrepreneurial brilliance - never before had one of its citizens been so prodigiously gifted. For Edison himself, these gifts were nothing less than the means to achieve the spiritual manifest destiny of the United States. It had fallen to him, as remarkable an inventor as he was a shrewd businessman, not only to define the meaning of progress, but then to chart the path by which he would lead the country toward it. And a the end of that journey lay the technological revolution of the twentieth century, the birth of the modern era.""