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THE FIRE OF HIS GENIUS; ROBERT FULTON AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
de Sale, Kirkpatrick
- Usado
- Estado
- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 068486715X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684867151
- Librería
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Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Sobre este artículo
2001. 2001 Sale, Kirkpatrick THE FIRE OF HIS GENIUS; ROBERT FULTON AND THE AMERICAN DREAM NY: The Free Press, c2001 first printing 242pp, index, source notes, black and white illustrations 8vo As new looks unread hardcover in d/j.
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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- Librería
- Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 89140
- Título
- THE FIRE OF HIS GENIUS; ROBERT FULTON AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
- Autor
- Sale, Kirkpatrick
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 068486715X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684867151
- Editorial
- Free Press
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2001
- Palabras clave
- BIOGRAPHY, ROBERT FULTON, AMERICANA
Términos de venta
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Books are returnable for a refund
if not as described.
Sobre el vendedor
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Columbia, Missouri
Sobre Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
30,000 books in stock, with special emphasis on gardening,
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
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