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The Fire of His Genius

The Fire of His Genius

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The Fire of His Genius

by Kirkpatrick Sale

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ISBN 10
068486715X
ISBN 13
9780684867151
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First Edition/printing. Slight surface wear to the dust jacket from shelving. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Small blue dot on top edge, near the spine.

Synopsis

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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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
1220-CHBKNAP-BX216-20.95
Title
The Fire of His Genius
Author
Kirkpatrick Sale
Format/Binding
Glued binding
Book Condition
Used - Very Good-
Jacket Condition
Very Good-
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
068486715X
ISBN 13
9780684867151
Publisher
The Free Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2001
Pages
242
Bookseller catalogs
Biographies and Memoirs;

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