The invention of miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness
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Published:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc:
ix, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781501167096, 150116709X, 9781501167096

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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
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"--,Provided by publisher.

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Booth, K. (2021). The invention of miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Simon & Schuster.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Booth, Katie. 2021. The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness. Simon & Schuster.

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Booth, Katie, The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness. Simon & Schuster, 2021.

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Booth, Katie. The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Simon & Schuster, 2021.

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