Samantha Desz
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
It recounts an extraordinary piece of forgotten history. Weaving together a moving love story with a fascinating tale of innovation, it follows the complicated tragedy of a brilliant young man who set about stamping out what he saw as a dangerous language: Sign. The audiobook offers a heartbreaking look at how heroes can become villains and how good intentions are, unfortunately, nowhere near enough, as well as a powerful account of the dawn of a...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his...
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