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The Last Days of Night

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The Last Days of Night

Auteur(s): Graham Moore
Narrateur(s): Johnathan McClain
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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson

“A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post

From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America.

New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history—and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. 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?

The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society—the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal—private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it?

In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he’ll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem.

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I really enjoyed this historical fiction novel about the legal battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over the patent to the incandescent lightbulb. Now, we all know Edison invented the bulb, but what is the real story? Did Edison copy someone else? Can others still have the right to manufacture similar bulbs? What if they ran on a completely different type of power?

What's amazing is this book is based quite significantly on true events. Westinghouse and Edison were engaged in legal battles over patents and manufacturing for over a decade in the late 1800s. The character of Paul, the lawyer, and Agnes, his love interest, are more fictional, used to tie the story together and provide some drama, but are real people involved in New York society around that time (and Paul was a lawyer for Westinghouse too). The history is phenomenal, and makes me want to learn more about these characters.

The only downside to the book was that Paul seemed a bit too quick to anger, very single minded without being able to see the larger context of the legal battle or his own relationship. He needed others to explain things to him, even Edison and Westinghouse explaining their own sides and giving up their own information without Paul seeming able to pull it together himself. The only downside to the recording was the narrator's complete inability to do any sort of foreign words (French especially). I would listen to this again, but may prefer to read it instead.

Good overall: good narration, story but some holes

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The story line starts off like a thriller but closer to the end turns into more of a spiral of improbable events. After the end (in an annotated dated explanation) we get the most amazing report that the story is truer to life than most biographies! That’s when I realized how good a “historical novel” it actually was !

Largely exciting. But the most amazing part is the appendix !!

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