Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse. Kenneth Silverman

Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse



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Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F.B. Morse Kenneth Silverman ebook
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Page: 516
ISBN: 9780306813948

In this brillianty conceived and executed biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning Kenneth Silverman gives us Samuel Morse (1791-1872) in all his complexity. A quiet man, raised by religious zealots, Morse became a gifted and prolific painter and photographer long before he found success as an inventor. He gave the first lectures on art in America, became the first Professor of Fine Arts at an American college, and founded the National Academy of Design. A republican idealist, prominent in antebellum politics, he ran for Congress and for mayor of New York. But his enduring legacy, as the inventor of the American electromagnetic telegraph, earned Morse the name Lightning Man and brought him the fame he sought. Remarkably,

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