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Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyFinalist for the Mark Lynton History PrizeMeticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail (Steve Silberman), this provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography (Sylvia Nasar) tells the trueand troublingstory of Alexander Graham Bells quest to end deafness.Researched and written through the Deaf perspective, this marvelously engaging history will have us rethinking the invention of the telephone. Jaipreet Virdi, PhD, author of Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in HistoryWe think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but thats not how he saw his own career. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach deaf students to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine.The Invention of Miracles takes a stirring (The New York Times Book Review), provocative (The Boston Globe), scrupulously researched (Pittsburgh PostGazette) new look at an American icon, revealing the astonishing true genesis of the telephone and its connection to another, far more disturbing legacy of Bells: his efforts to suppress American Sign Language. Weaving together a dazzling tale of innovation with a moving love story, the book offers a heartbreaking account of how a champion can become an adversary and an enthralling depiction of the deaf communitys fight to reclaim a onceforbidden language.Katie Booth has been researching this story for more than fifteen years, poring over Bells papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. But shes also lived with this story for her entire life. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bells legacy on her family would set her on a path that overturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and the telephone.
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