AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War by McNichol, Tom [Hardback]

Description: Praise for AC/DC "You'll never look at your wall socket the same again." --Evan Ratliff, coauthor, Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World "From the twisted copper wires of electricity's early years McNichol spins a story buzzing with genius and fraud, ambition and infamy, hilarity and humiliation. It's a joy to read: a comic operetta of American industrial history, full of great men, small minds and an alarming number of dead dogs." --Craig Stoltz, health editor, Washington Post "Few writers explain technology as well as Tom McNichol. No one's as good at finding the humor in it." --Jeffrey O'Brien, senior editor, Wired magazine "A fascinating history of the battle that decided what comes through the wires when we flick a switch. A great story of how far people will go to prove they're 'right' - and make a buck." --J. J. Yore, executive producer, public radio's Marketplace "A tale of astonishing genius and greed, a perfect reflection of the competing forces that built corporate America. McNichol offers us a ringside seat at the birth of a superpower, and it's a bloody, messy, and altogether fascinating spectacle." --Brooke Gladstone, cohost, NPR's On the Media TOM MCNICHOL is a contributing editor for Wired magazine. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. His radio commentaries and satires have aired on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Marketplace. He's the author of Barking at Prozac (Crown Publishing, 1997), and his work appears in the anthology Afterwords: Stories and Reports from 9/11 and Beyond (Washington Square Press, 2002).

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