Author: Booth, Katie
Price: $20.39
Category:Community & Culture Biographies
Publication Date:2021-04-06T00:00:01Z
Pages:416
Binding:Hardcover
ISBN:10:150116709X
ISBN:13:
A “revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true–and troubling–story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of [him] as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak … And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts–or perhaps, more accurately, because of them–Bell had become the American Deaf community’s most powerful enemy”–
