How Thomas Alva Edison invented the Modern world

Book:The Wizard of Menlo Park: HOW THOMAS ALVA EDISON INVENTED THE MODERN WORLD WORLD.-By Randall Stross, Crown Publishers, $24.95Reviewed by Tim Rutten (Gulf News):Tittle: Iconic Inventor - entrepreneurTomas Edison was a shrewd genius who transformed himself from tinkerer to celebrity sage.... the book does a meticulous job of charting Edison's well-documented journey from peniless you telegrapher to interenational technical celebrity and, as a journalist himself, Stross does an adroit job ofshowing how Edison used his era's nascent popular press and magazines.... however, whatever his other achievements, for example, Edison was utternly conventional in his prejudices, which were common to his time and class....Ford was then the country's most successful businessman and quite at home with his newfound friend's lack of commercial acumen. In fact, he once described Edison as "the world's worst businessman", a mann who " knows almost nothing about business".