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And Other True Stories of Invention
St. Martin's Griffin
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
384 pages
ISBN: 0312535724
EAN: 9780312535728
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Flash of Genius And Other True Stories of Invention by John
Seabrook, staff writer for The New Yorker, is a collection
of true stories about where great ideas come from, and is
the basis for the Major Motion Picture starring Greg
Kinnear releasing October 2008. “John Seabrook is one of America’s finest non-fiction
writers….Fascinating, entertaining, beautifully written and
often poignant…”—Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation Where Do Great Ideas Come From? In Flash of Genius, John Seabrook explores the moment when
inspiration strikes in an otherwise average life, and what
happens when that idea moves out into the larger culture
and takes on a life—and commercial possibilities—of its
own. The title piece in this collection is the David v.
Goliath story of Bob Kearns, a professor and inventor who
came up with something we all use every chance we get: the
intermittent windshield wiper. When Kearns’ patents were
infringed, he fought General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler,
and eventually prevailed in a classic American story of
never giving up, never backing down.
Seabrook has been fascinated by stories of invention and
entrepreneurship since childhood, when he grew up with an
uncle who invented something as ubiquitous as Bob Kearns’
wipers: boil-in-bag vegetables. In Flash of Genius,
Seabrook also writes about his family’s invention and about
thirteen other iconoclastic visions that turned into the
stuff of every day.
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