num_pages: 286
description: History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? Here are the extraordinary, and inspirational, lives of thirteen losers who achieved great heights in their lifetimes only to then meet crushing defeats.
language: English
title: Banvard's Folly: Tales of Reknowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
titlecomplete: Banvard's Folly: Tales of Reknowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
genres: Essays, Short Stories, Historical, Biography, Science, Nonfiction, History, Humor
ratings_count: 740
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Oregon Book Award
category: Nonfiction (Finalist)
publisher: Picador