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File Size: 11294 KB
Print Length: 370 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0812988922
Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (August 16, 2016)
Publication Date: August 16, 2016
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01A4AXM3W
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While I was fascinated to read about the magical era of invention in the late 1800s, I would rather have read an in-depth, well researched non-fiction book, like those written by David McCullough, than a fiction book, even if based largely on fact. The central theme of the book is the lengthy litigation ongoing between Thomas Edison, who advocated use of Direct Current (DC) based electricity, and George Westinghouse, who favored Alternating Current (AC). In the end, as we all now know, AC won out. Except for vehicles (and similar uses) which use DC current, the rest of our lives are powered by AC current, in which Nikolas Tesla (who plays a major role in this novel) played a significant part in development of the technology. Thomas Edison is pretty much portrayed as a narcissistic, self-centered, win at all costs character who will stop at nothing (lying, cheating, spying, etc.) to win at any cost - and he is well-backed in that regard by J.P. Morgan, who owns 60% of Edison General Electric. Ultimately, Edison's refusal to move away from his significant investments in the less efficient Direct Current approach resulted in George Westinghouse (and others) to push AC as the standard for distributing electricity throughout the U.S., and Edison's falling sales and profit prompted J.P. Morgan to remove him as head of Edison General Electric and move his investments into the AC technology led by George Westinghouse under the renamed General Electric company. Based on my quick research, it appears that the primary events, characters, activities, and results portrayed in this novel are accurate, so in that sense it does serve to not only enlighten the reader, but also to provide that knowledge couched in a pretty interesting storyline with some suspense, a love interest, and other more human events. I enjoyed the book.
God Said, “Let There Be light.†Thomas Edison Said, “Not Yet.â€By Bob Gelms Graham Moore is an exceptionally good writer who makes himself increasingly significant every time he touches a keyboard. In my view, he has already turned himself into a writer who must be read. I’ll now read anything he writes. Mr. Moore has won an Academy Award for the screenplay he wrote for the motion picture The Imitation Game. It also won him a Writers Guild of American Award from his peers and was nominated for a Golden Globe. Flush with success, he quickly published his first novel, The Sherlockian. It raced up the charts into best-seller-land and I wrote about it in the last issue of 365ink. Tempus Fugit and along comes his second novel, The Last Days of Night. It, too, is a best seller but a bigger one at that and one of the best examples of historical fiction that comes to mind. If you’ll pardon a colloquialism, it’s a humdinger squared. The events that take place in the book are all true. The major characters and a few of the minor ones are all real people. I found it incessantly fascinating. You will read about the relationships between George Westinghouse, Nicola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Westinghouse’s lawyer, Paul Cravath, an appearance by J. P. Morgan, and a whole congregation of New York socialites, mega-wealthy business men and politicians. Most of these relationships became poisonously deadly. At issue first was the light bulb. Thomas Edison conned the public into believing that he had invented the little glass miracle that glowed in the dark. He didn’t. Men by the names of Sawyer, Man, and Joseph Swan did the real inventing and held the patents. Edison “borrowed†their work which gave him a massive leg-up. Edison improved the design just enough for the Patent Office to issue him a patent. Then George Westinghouse did to Edison what Edison did to Sawyer, Man, and Swan. He made a better light bulb, but in Westinghouse’s case he did make a better bulb…much, much better in almost every way. Edison promptly sued Westinghouse for one billion dollars with a “B.†While this was going on, there was a life and death struggle to see which form of electricity would wind up in use all over the world in people’s houses and businesses. Would it be Edison’s DC (direct current) which was massively inefficient, outrageously expensive, and horrifically dangerous? Or would it be Tesla’s and Westinghouse’s AC (alternating current) which was efficient, inexpensive, and safe? It was a war. Read and learn. Nicola Tesla was a bona fide, 5 star, golden genius, the kind of genius that would be mentioned in the same sentence with Sir Isaac Newton and Leonardo da Vinci. He was also psychotic in the clinical sense. He described getting his ideas fully formed from dreams or hallucinations that were vivid, lasted days, and were sometimes scary. He, eventually, had a total nervous breakdown. Tesla should have been born at the end of the 21st century. He was that far ahead of the times. In the 1890s, he described in detail television, cell phones, radio and wireless communication. When Gugliemo Marconi “invented†radio using 17 of Tesla’s patents, the court case that ensued went all the way to the SCOTUS. Six months after Tesla died a penniless vagrant in a flop house in New York, the SCOTUS vacated Marconi’s claim of inventing radio and gave the invention’s ownership to Tesla because of Marconi's patent infringement. Nicola Tesla invented radio not Marconi. Tesla worked for both Edison (which ended incredibly badly) and Westinghouse (which also ended badly). Tesla was not a businessman and being thrown into the proverbial tank with sharks like Morgan, Edison and Westinghouse, poor Nicola Tesla was torn apart and eaten alive. Westinghouse, Edison, J. P. Morgan, and Paul Cravath who was Westinghouse’s wunderkind attorney, managed to resist killing each other despite the fact that they all had serious thoughts of doing so. They came together in a genius settlement that Mr. Cravath, who was 27 years old at the time, devised. That didn’t stop a massively hostile takeover attempt by one or more of the lads of one or more of the existing companies. The Edison General Electric Company, in what was nothing more than a malicious act of payback by someone who had the power to do it, removed Edison’s name from the company and that, dear reader, is how we got General Electric. Graham Moore’s The Last Days of Night is a grand slam home run. It’s wonderfully written, plotted and spellbinding. It is endlessly entertaining. I give it 8 stars out of a possible 5. You will not be disappointed.
Events are compressed, some interior conversations are created by the author, but the story itself is largely true.And what a story it is! Many giants of the American Industrial Revolution knocked heads and pocketbooks in the development and diffusion of electricity - and the most significant device that electricity made possible: the light bulb.Edison, Westinghouse, J. P. Morgan, Nicola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell and young attorney named Paul Cravath all played a role in this fascinating story.Take a break from binge-watching TV or internet content. Instead, pick a weekend and read the whole book between Friday night and Monday morning. You'll feel wonderful having been so thoroughly engaged and entertained.
I don’t read a lot of historical fiction – probably because I read a fair amount of non-fiction -- including history books and biographies. Perhaps some people like historical fiction because some history books can be dry and historical fiction can “kick it up a notchâ€. And historical fiction can just imagine what historical characters might have said – thus eliminating the effort that history books and biographies have to do by extracting text from memoirs and other historical records. I’m just not used to authors shuffling the timeline and imagining conversations to make a work of fiction with pieces of history that many or may not have actually occurred.For this book, the historical events appear to drive the story, and yet those events just seem to be a background for this fictionalized effort. But as a work of fiction, the story is just not that exciting. And though the historical aspects are true in a general sense, the majority of the details are simply fiction.The best historical fiction I’ve read: “The Killer Angels†by Michael Shaara.The best biography I’ve read: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernov
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