From WSJbooks: The writer who gave us a masterly biography of Theodore Roosevelt found, for his final work, an equally compelling subject in the oddball genius whose discoveries continue to light our world
In October 1929, Thomas Edison was a sleep-deprived octogenarian, deaf as an adder—“I haven’t heard a bird sing since I was twelve years old.
” Having sworn off public speaking, he was reluctant to break his silence for Light’s Golden Jubilee, a slickly packaged commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his incandescent light bulb. Yet he could hardly say no when Henry Ford, a fervent admirer, asked him to re-enact the moment of discovery at Greenfield Village—more formally christened the Edison Institute—in Dearborn, Mich. Prominent in Ford’s outdoor museum of historic structures was the relocated New Jersey laboratory...
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