The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream
- List Price: $24.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 09/01/2001
A compelling historical interpretation, The Fire of His Genius is also a beautifully written biography of this extraordinarily driven and ambitious inventor. Fulton, a man lionized in his own lifetime as an American hero, spent his prolific life developing inventions and voraciously defending his patents. His is a story of both the promise and the cost of creative genius, told in relation to the larger-than-life figures of the period, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Meriwether Lewis. A story of ambition, passion, and invention -- as if Simon Winchester's The Professor and the Madman met Dava Sobel's Longitude -- The Fire of His Genius is a thrilling and cautionary tale of the quintessential American, Robert Fulton.
