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Title: Executioner's Current : Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair by Richard Moran ISBN: 0-375-41059-7 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well-Written and Thorough
Comment: This is a good book. In addition to being very clearly written in a very engaging style, the author discusses just about all aspects of the development and use of the electric chair: technology of the times, effects of electricity on the human body, legal and political aspects of executing condemned criminals using electricity, related sociological matters, even the life, trial and details of the execution of the chair's first official customer. Naturally, the war between Edison and Westinghouse, i.e., DC vs AC, plays a most prominent role in this exciting saga; in particular, the "efforts" in determining which is deadlier: DC or AC. Highly recommended!
Rating: 2
Summary: Executioner's Current
Comment: Whilst Mr. Moran presents a compelling story, it is nontheless a biased one - I was also left wanting for more background on the characters, which the book does not really cover and required much other reading to fill in the gaps.
From a writer's perspective, the language and often the story is highly repetitve, with much unnecessay page-filling.
Rating: 4
Summary: Will the Real Genius Please Stand Up?
Comment: Although I have not read Mr. Moran's book, I am worried it appears as if he gives credit to George Westinghouse as fathering alternating current electricity. Westinghouse merely had the forsight to finance the brilliant mind behind AC electricity, Nikola Tesla, who conceived it, and designed the machinery for using it. Fortunately, Westinghouse was there at the right moment. It is possible without his financial help, Tesla may not have accomplished what he did. But let's make sure we have the right names for the fueding parties in this war of the currents. Westinghouse can get the credit for the AC electric plants because he was holding the purse strings, and for his courageous fight against Edison. However, it was the genius of NIKOLA TESLA that revolutionized electric power. So give credit where credit is due, and call it by its proper name--TESLA's AC electricity, not Westinghouse!
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Title: Empires of Light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World by Jill Jonnes ISBN: 0375507396 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death by Mark Regan Essig ISBN: 0802714064 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society by Richard Maxwell Brown ISBN: 0806126183 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler : A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America by Irene Quenzler Brown, Richard D. Brown ISBN: 0674010205 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 30 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag ISBN: 0374248583 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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