All the while, Baron keeps the setting in check, reminding us that Americans are still monitoring the price of whale oil and molasses, women’s suffrage remains a long way off and it’s a year before the Meeker Massacre unfolds in Northwest Colorado.īaron delivers delicious insight into Thomas Edison as a manic inventor with a particular prowess for the press - indeed, a Kardashian of his time. We grip the alliances and the egos, the grudges and the personal glories, their business and their pleasure. We travel deep inside their methodologies, workspaces, family lives and emotional selves. Relying on more than a resume, he dissects big personalities and their lofty ambitions. Indeed, 1878 proves America’s moment for redemption - an opportunity to put us on a scientific echelon with Old Europe.īaron brings to life many of America’s notable homegrown scientists. We dip into a consequential 1876 world’s fair, which stoked America’s imagination and competitive pride - a young nation’s nudge to speed up our scientific achievements. The action culminates in less than three minutes on the Wyoming and Colorado frontier, backdropped by the rise of the Brooklyn Bridge in the East and the slow boil of a Ute tragedy on the immediate landscape. “American Eclipse” tells an irresistible history of American ingenuity and intellectual maturation during the Gilded Age.
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