Lightning Man - by Kenneth Silverman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A "superb" ("Wall Street Journal" biography by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the "most illustrious American of his age"-the painter-turned-inventor Samuel F.B. Morse<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This brilliantly conceived biography is the very American tale of a quiet man, raised by religious zealots, who became a gifted and prolific painter (more than three hundred portraits and historical canvases), became the first Professor of Fine Arts at an American college, and founded the National Academy of Design. A classic overachiever, this was simply not enough for Samuel F. B. Morse; he subsequently ran for Congress and mayor of New York. Lastly, in his most famous life's work, he invented a machine that was to transform commerce, communication, transportation, military affairs, diplomacy, and the course of the modern world. What invention could be so revolutionary? The telegraph, of course-and the eponymous Morse code. Here is the story of an incredible invention, and an engrossing life, by a Bancroft- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born and raised in Manhattan, <b>Kenneth Silverman</b> is Professor Emeritus of English at New York University. His other books include <i>Timothy Dwight, A Cultural History of the American Revolution, Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-Ending Remembrance, and Houdini!!! The Life of Ehrich Weiss</i>. He is winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for <i>The Life and Times of Cotton Mather</i>.
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