![]() ![]() Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? An untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. The person who can harness this miracle and bring it to the masses, to forever change people’s relationship with night, will make history-and a vast fortune. ![]() In 1888 New York, gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but electric light is in its infancy. From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling historical novel-based on actual events-about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. ![]()
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