num_pages: 528
description: Regarded as the classic standard biography on Thomas Edison. It is the only biography written in the last 40 years to be recommended by the official voice of the caretakers of the Edison Laboratory National Monument in New Jersey which houses all of Edison's original records, sketches, notes, correspondence and memoranda. Depicts Edison as a pivotal figure in America's economic and industrial revolution success and at the same time as a human being, including his exploitative and, at times, crude qualities.
language: English
title: Edison: A Biography
titlecomplete: Edison: A Biography
genres: Business, Biography, Science, Nonfiction, Memoir, American History, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, 20th Century, History
ratings_count: 246
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: Francis Parkman Prize, awardedAt: -315590400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Wiley