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This is an interesting book as it depicts the war between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison over the future distribution of electricity.\u00c2\u00a0 We all know that Westinghouse’s system won in the end and we use alternating current instead of Edison’s direct current plan.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is a fictional account of how the war was fought and the central character is a young lawyer that Westinghouse hired to defend him against Edison’s lawsuits.<\/p>\n
The story is interesting and the book is well-written.\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of the book, however, there are voluminous nn otes that describe every deviation in the novel from what actually occurred.\u00c2\u00a0 I was amazed at how much Moore altered the facts, even to the extent of altering the timeline when various things occurred.\u00c2\u00a0 There didn’t seem to be a reason for many of the alterations other than fitting the events into the timeline of his story.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems to me that an equally interesting story could easily have been told without nearly as much alteration from true historical facts.\u00c2\u00a0 After I put down the novel I wondered a bit if I had read either a gigantic conspiracy theory or an outright hoax.<\/p>\n
Another questionable aspect of the novel was the totally negative portrayal of Edison.\u00c2\u00a0 I have visited the Edison Museum in Fort Meyers twice and walked away with the impression that Edison was a pretty amazing individual.\u00c2\u00a0 This book portrayed him pretty much as a greedy, low-down thief.\u00c2\u00a0 While the Edison Museum might stretch a bit far on putting Edison on a pedestal, I still think my opinion leans toward their portrayal versus what I read in the novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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