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The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream
The Fire of His Genius Robert Fulton and the American Dream
Author: Kirkpatrick Sale
None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat. But as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkable biography, Fulton's "large, noisy, showy, fast, brash, exciting, powerful, and audac...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743223218
ISBN-10: 0743223217
Publication Date: 8/27/2002
Pages: 256
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Free Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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I simply absorbed this book. It not only filled in many blanks in my knowledge of American History but brought in events around the world
occurring at the same time. People and events that are so important to
our own History.


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