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02798aam a2200349 i 4500 001 BC60FB2E2F9311EF91BB113C36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240621010048 008 240311s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1324094699 020 $a 9781324094692 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Baron, David, $d 1964-, $e author. 245 1 $a American Eclipse : $b a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world / $c David Baron. 264 1 $a New York, N.Y. : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, $c 2024. 300 $a xii, 336 pages : $b illustrations (some color), maps, color chart ; $c 25 cm. 500 $a "with a new afterword". 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-308) and index. 505 $a Prologue: Shall the sun be darkened -- Part one: 1876. Reign of shoddy -- Professor of quadruplicity -- Nemesis -- "Petticoat parliament" -- Part two: 1878. Politics and moonshine -- The wizard in Washington -- Sic transit -- "Good woman that she are" -- Show business -- Part three: 1878. Among the tribes of uncivilization -- Queen city -- Nature's editor -- Old probabilities -- Part four: 1878. Favored mortals -- First contact -- Totality -- American genius -- Part five: 1878-1931. Ghosts -- Shadow and light -- Epilogue: Tendrils of history. 520 $a In vibrant historical detail, American Eclipse animates the fierce jockeying that came to dominate late nineteenth-century American astronomy, revealing the challenges faced by three of the most determined eclipse chasers who participated in this adventure. James Craig Watson, in his day a renowned asteroid hunter; Vassar astronomer Maria Mitchell, who fought to demonstrate that science and higher learning were not anathema to femininity; and Thomas Edison, a young inventor and irrepressible showman. With vivid accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, Baron's page-turning drama not only brings to life the mythologized age of the Wild West in a totally unexpected way but forever memorializes an historic eclipse that would come to symbolize American science in its ascendance.-- $c Adapted from book jacket. 541 $d 20240311. 650 $a Science $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 $a Science $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 1 $a Eclipses $x History. 650 $a Astronomy $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 $a Astronomy $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 651 $a United States $x Civilization $y 1865-1918. 655 7 $a History. 710 $a Colorado State Library Book Club Project. 941 $a 1 952 $l TBPD706 $d 20240621012034.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BC60FB2E2F9311EF91BB113C36ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search