Margaret Cheney is a biographer of unusual versatility. In addition to her two major studies of Tesla (most recently Tesla: Master of Lightning, with Robert Uth), she has written Midnight at Mabel's, a biography of the great cabaret singer and song stylist Mabel Mercer. Cheney is also the author of Meanwhile Farm and Why: The Serial Killer in America. She lives in California.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Modern Prometheus
2. A Gambling Man
3. Immigrants of Distinction
4. At the Court of Mr. Edison
5. The War of the Currents Begins
6. Order of the Flaming Sword
7. Radio
8. High Society
9. High Road, Low Road
10. An Error of Judgment
11. To Mars
12. Robots
13. Hurler of Lightning
14. Blackout at Colorado Springs
15. Magnificent and Doomed
16. Ridiculed, Condemned, Combatted
17. The Great Radio Controversy
18. Midstream Perils
19. The Nobel Affair
20. Flying Stove
21. Radar
22. The Guest of Honor
23. Pigeons
24. Transitions
25. The Birthday Parties
26. Corks on Water
27. Cosmic Communion
28. Death and Transfiguration
29. The Missing Papers
30. The Legacy
Bibliographical Essay
Reference Notes
Postscript
Index
