Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses

Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Al…

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