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Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History's Greatest Geniuses
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Biting humor paired with true history, this is a fantastic read for anyone looking to add some curiosities to their knowledge of famous personalities, or for anyone looking to explore those personalities for the first time. Immensely accessible and a pleasure to read, this is a delightful invitation to histories lesser known joys.
Publishers Weekly Best Summer Reads
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how geniu...
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how geniu...