NP new book from Kirkpatrick Sale

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This Weekend on Book TV: Whiz Kids Old and New

Focusing on serious nonfiction and the publishing
industry, Book TV
airs continuously each weekend from Saturday at 8 a.m.
to Monday at 8
a.m. on C-SPAN2.

Highlights and featured authors for this coming
weekend:

Saturday, October 19 (All times Eastern)

[...] 

7 p.m. Encore Booknotes. Kirkpatrick Sale discusses
his book The Fire
of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream
(Free Press). In
the book, Sale depicts the early days of Fulton's
life, his
self-taught tinkering and the numerous patents he
spent much of his
life defending, including those for an inclined plane,
a rope-maker, a
submarine, an underwater cannon and a steam frigate.
Sale emphasizes
that Robert Fulton did not invent the steamboat but
developed the
first truly workable steamship. It made its debut in
1807, and,
according to Sale, helped usher in the Industrial
Revolution and
transform 19th-century America. He contends that the
steamboat also
aided the destruction of remaining Indian
civilizations and most of
the wild lands on which they depended. (Re-airs Sunday
at 11 a.m.)

...from:
PW Daily for Booksellers (October 16, 2002)

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