I have not yet seen the book but there is a good essay reviewing it in The Atlantic Monthly, November 2019. However, Mr. Thompson finds that the author's decision to organize the book by having the first chapter cover Edison's life in the 1920s, the next cover the teens, etc. to make no sense as readers need to know what came before as Mr. Edison's life winds out.
Derek Thompson, 'Thomas Edison's Greatest Invention,' p. 38.
There is also an essay by Casey Cep reviewing this book. "Edison's gift was not so much inventing as what he called perfecting--finding ways to make things better or cheaper or both. Edison did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification." p. 72, The New Yorker, 28 October 2019.
Derek Thompson, 'Thomas Edison's Greatest Invention,' p. 38.
There is also an essay by Casey Cep reviewing this book. "Edison's gift was not so much inventing as what he called perfecting--finding ways to make things better or cheaper or both. Edison did not look for problems in need of solutions; he looked for solutions in need of modification." p. 72, The New Yorker, 28 October 2019.
