The Fire Of His Genius (QuakerBooks)

The Fire Of His Genius

Robert Fulton And The American Dream

BY KIRKPATRICK SALE

Brief Description:
From a leading environmentalist thinker, chairman of the Schumacher Society . 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 of the steam boat 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.

Touchstone 2002 242 PP. Paper

$2.50 (in stock)

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