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A review by bargainsleuth
Edison by Edmund Morris
3.0
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After reading the reviews and finding out that Morris, whom I'm no fan of after his horrible biography of Ronald Reagan, decided with his editor to write the story of Edison's life backwards, I wasn't sure I wanted to read it. Then I did what any self-respecting reader who prefers chronological biographies would do: I read it backwards, starting with part 8 and working my way back to the Prologue. It was an interesting book when read that way. I think I would have been frustrated had I read it the way it was laid out, because part 1 refers to inventions and patents that come up in part 5 and 6. So the gimmick didn't work for me. I still wonder how Morris won the Pulitzer, because I found his books on Theodore Roosevelt just okay, not spectacular. Same with this book. It was interesting, but not outstanding.
After reading the reviews and finding out that Morris, whom I'm no fan of after his horrible biography of Ronald Reagan, decided with his editor to write the story of Edison's life backwards, I wasn't sure I wanted to read it. Then I did what any self-respecting reader who prefers chronological biographies would do: I read it backwards, starting with part 8 and working my way back to the Prologue. It was an interesting book when read that way. I think I would have been frustrated had I read it the way it was laid out, because part 1 refers to inventions and patents that come up in part 5 and 6. So the gimmick didn't work for me. I still wonder how Morris won the Pulitzer, because I found his books on Theodore Roosevelt just okay, not spectacular. Same with this book. It was interesting, but not outstanding.