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Kirkpatrick Sale
Books by Kirkpatrick Sale
The Fire of His Genius
Robert Fulton and the American Dream
None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat. But as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkable biography, Fulton's "large, noisy, showy, fast,...