Edison: Inventing the Century

Neil Baldwin. Hyperion Books, $14.45 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-8119-2

The boxed PW review of Baldwin's biography of the driven, contradictory inventor called it ``an inspirational American saga of titanic determination and protean imagination.'' (Feb.)

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