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The fire of his genius: Robert Fulton and the American dream / Kirkpatrick Sale
de Sale, Kirkpatrick
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- ISBN 10
- 0743223217
- ISBN 13
- 9780743223218
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Simon Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Library copy with minor remarks. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Minor browning to the pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 242 p., [8] p. of plates: ill; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Fulton, Robert 1765-1815. Marine engineers United States; Biography. Inventors United States; Biography. Steamboats History. Genre: Biography.
Sinopsis
None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat. But as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkable biography, Fulton's "large, noisy, showy, fast, brash, exciting, powerful, and audacious" machine would -- for better or worse -- irrevocably transform nineteenth-century America. Set against a brilliant portrait of a dynamic period in history, The Fire of His Genius tells the story of the fiercely driven man whose invention opened up America's interior to waves of settlers, created and sustained industrial and plantation economies in the nation's heartland, and facilitated the destruction of the remaining Indian civilizations. Probing Fulton's genius but also laying bare the darker side of the man -- and the darker side of the American dream -- Kirkpatrick Sale tells an extraordinary tale with deftness, zest, and unflagging verve.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 322008
- Título
- The fire of his genius: Robert Fulton and the American dream / Kirkpatrick Sale
- Autor
- Sale, Kirkpatrick
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Softcover
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0743223217
- ISBN 13
- 9780743223218
- Editorial
- New York: Simon Schuster
- Lugar de publicación
- Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.s.a.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
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