A judicious approach to the controversy of the steamboat, and the
careful evidence and deliberate objectivity enlightens the strange
history of our greatest scientific contribution. Was it Fitch, the
misfit, who constructed the boat which made its first run in ??
Fitch' ?? the final time but not first time but not the second, but
gaining greater political and financial support who made the famous
steamboat run which was him fame at the ?? Worthwhile approach for
young ??. (Kirkus Reviews)
In this work, Flexner chronicles the lives of three men, all
striving to invent the first steamboat, and shows the pattern of
their interwoven fates. In his introduction, Flexner profiles his
first protagonist, John Fitch, as an archetypal wild man of genius
... born to create what would not be accepted, to fight man and God
for what he considered justice, and in the end, destroy himself.
Fitch's rival and enemy, James Rumsey, was A backwoods gambler,
suave and humorous where Fitch was torrential, Rumsey was also (but
how differently ) self-destroyed. Enter Robert Fulton, an inventor
born to succeed, with whom the tale of anguished pioneering ends.
Flexner paints the final hero as an able and cynical opportunist
who became rich, socially elevated, and down through the
generations, famous.
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