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Author:

Ball, Edward, 1959-

Title:

The inventor and the tycoon : a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures / Edward Ball.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Doubleday,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xiv, 447 p. : ill., maps, ports., photos, front. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Muybridge, Eadweard,--1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard,--1830-1904--Trials, litigation, etc.
Stanford, Leland,--1824-1893.
Trials (Murder)--San Francisco.--San Francisco.
Cinematography--History.
Motion pictures--United States--History.
Cinematographers--California--Biography.
Businesspeople--California--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-425) and index.

Summary:

A riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.

ISBN:

0385525753
9780385525756

LCCN:

2012019977

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