The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream (2001)

Format: Hardcover ISBN: 068486715X Condition: Very Good The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Contents Description: Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkable biography of Fulton, the North River's successful four-day round-trip to Albany proved a technology that would transform nineteenth-century America, open up the interior to huge waves of settlers, create and sustain industrial and plantation economies in the nation's heartland, and destroy the remaining Indian civilizations and most of the wild lands on which they depended. - from the inside flap