At first glance, Neil Baldwin seems an odd choice to write a biography of the great American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. His academic training is in English, not history or technology. His two ...

“IT is estimated,” so Mr. Francis Arthur Jones tells us, “that if everything that has ever been written and published about Edison were collected and re-published in book form, it would make a library ...

Biography as literature lost one of its modern masters when Edmund Morris died in May. His magnum opus on Theodore Roosevelt, begun in the 1970s and completed a decade ago, made a forceful impression ...