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Author:

Spalding, Katie, author. 232763

Title:

Edison's ghosts : the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses / Katie Spalding.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

LittleBrown and Company,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Eccentrics and eccentricities--Anecdotes.
Gifted persons--Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-332) and index.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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 genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there's probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn't. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition.

ISBN:

0316529524
9780316529525

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1378722437

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