A review by momey
Edison by Edmund Morris

1.0

I don't know what possessed the author to invert his narrative but the end result was to make this biography of Edison a complete slog. seriously I don't think I achieved any insight into Edison or his process. Would it have been different if the story of his childhood and youth came first? Maybe but after forcing myself through all those pages I really wasn't in the mood to rethink or reread the earlier pages. I have had some personal experience hanging with 'inventors' and I do know it takes more than having a 'good idea' to engender a technological revolution like Edison's inventions have. Contrasting this book to Walter Isaacson's bio of Steve Job's--the later was so much more insightful about the man and also his creations and vision really. I was disappointed.