Edison (Book)

Why it’s on the list: Edmund Morris’s final biography — a full-life portrait of Thomas Edison, told in reverse chronology.

Where I heard about it

• Recommended by Marc Andreessen in an April 2020 X thread — a “short list of important books to complement” his essay It’s Time To Build: “by Edmund Morris on perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison.”
• My own reading plan — slotted under 2027 on the to-read list in my Roam “Books Read” page.

Connections

• Edmund Morris
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Benjamin Franklin — An American Life
• The Idea Factory