{"product_id":"wizard-isbn-9780806539966","title":"Wizard","description":"\u003cb\u003e“The story of one of the most prolific, independent, and iconoclastic inventors of this century . . . fascinating.”—\u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Based on original material and previously unavailable documents, this acclaimed book is the definitive biography of the man considered by many to be the founding father of modern electrical technology. Among Tesla’s creations were the channeling of alternating current, fluorescent and neon lighting, wireless telegraphy, and the giant turbines that harnessed the power of Niagara Falls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis essential biography is illustrated with sixteen pages of photographs, including the July 20, 1931, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine cover for an issue celebrating the inventor’s career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWizard\u003c\/i\u003e is a truly remarkable biography of a remarkable man. The expression ‘ahead of his time’ is used too loosely and too often today but in the case of Nikola Tesla ‘ahead of his time’ barely describes the genius of this man. Marc Seifer makes us understand not only the man but the times in which he lived.”—Nelson DeMille\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A deep and comprehensive biography of a great engineer of early electrical science—likely to become the definitive biography. Highly recommended.”—American Association for the Advancement of Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Vivid, revelatory . . . the fullest account yet of Tesla as an entrepreneur, experimental physicist and inventor.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\"Seifer's vivid, revelatory, exhaustively researched biography rescues pioneer inventor Nikola Tesla from cult status and restores him to his rightful place as a principal architect of the modern age.\" ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Wizard] brings the many complex facets of [Tesla's] personal and technical life together in to a cohesive whole.... I highly recommend this biography of a great technologist.\" --A.A. Mullin, U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, COMPUTING REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Along with A Beautiful Mind] one of the five best biographies written on the brilliantly disturbed.\" --WALL STREET JOURNAL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Wizard is a compelling tale presenting a teeming, vivid world of science, technology, culture and human lives.\" --NEW SCIENTIST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Marc Seifer is an excellent writer and scholar, who has produced a wonderfully readable and illuminating biography of one of the most intriguing men of this century... mak[ing] us understand not only the man, but also the times in which he lived. . . . [A] masterpiece.\" --NELSON DEMILLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The author presents much new material... [and] bases his book on a large number of archival and primary sources.... Underneath the layers of hero worship, the core of Seifer's book is a serious piece of scholarship.\" --Ronald Kline, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Seifer has done a remarkable job going through all the Tesla manuscripts… ferret[ing] out hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles in which he traces out Tesla's public image [and] offers a reasonable reconstruction of Tesla's emotional world. . . . Seifer has significantly advanced our understanding of Tesla.\" --Bernard Carlson, author of Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, for ISIS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It is my opinion that Dr. Seifer leads the world as the most authoritative of all the Tesla researchers.\" --J.W. McGINNIS,President, International Tesla Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Far and away the best job among Tesla biographies.\" --Jeffrey D. Kooistra, INFINITE ENERGY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Wizard is … utterly absorbing with chapters charting all stages of Tesla's life.... Seifer treats his prodigious subject with sympathy and realism.\" --NEXUS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Wizard... presents a much more accurate... picture of Tesla.... [It] is thorough, informative, entertaining and a valuable addition to electrotechnological history, past and future.\" --ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"In modern times, Tesla may be enjoying a comeback thanks to books like Wizard.\" --THE NEW YORK TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Here is a deep and comprehensive biography of a great engineer of early electrical science. Indeed, it is likely to become the definitive biography of the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla. .... Highly recommended.\" --AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Publishers Weekly:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeifer's vivid,  revelatory, exhaustively researched biography rescues pioneer inventor  Nikola Tesla from cult status and restores him to his rightful place as a  principal architect of the modern age. Based largely on firsthand  documents including Tesla's writings, his patents and those of  competitors, it credits the Croatian-born Serb, who moved to New York in  1884, with the invention of the induction motor, long-distance  electrical power distribution, fluorescent and neon lights, the first  true radio tube and remote control, besides making vital contributions  to the technology underlying television, wireless communication,  robotics, lasers, the facsimile machine and particle-beam weaponry  anticipating the space-based \"Star Wars\" defensive shield. Though often  depicted as a recluse, flamboyant nouveau-riche Tesla (1856-1943) lived  in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for two decades, and hobnobbed with  architect Sanford White, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, conservationist  John Muir, mogul John Jacob Astor III, Swami Vivekananda. Yet the  electronic wizard, who competed fiercely with Marconi and with his  one-time employer Edison, became swamped in debt, abandoned by a world  he helped create, ending his days in seedy poverty, a bitter, anorexic  eccentric obsessed with feeding pigeons and avoiding germs. Seifer, who  teaches psychology at Community College of Rhode Island, attributes  Tesla's downfall partly to his megalomaniacal, neurotic,  self-destructive tendencies, partly to a quagmire of litigation and also  to his Faustian pact with his ambivalent benefactor, Wall Street  financier J. Pierpont Morgan, to whom he relinquished control of several  patents. Morgan, suggests Seifer, stymied Tesla's visionary scheme for a  global, wireless power-distribution system because, if realized, it  would jeopardize electrical, lighting and telephone monopolies. Seifer  provides the fullest account yet of Tesla as an entrepreneur,  experimental physicist and inventor.\u003cbr\u003e Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Boxed \u0026amp; Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom Library Journal:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNikola  Tesla is credited by many as the inventor of radio and should have  received most of the credit for the development of modern electricity.  Yet there is considerable confusion about his technical contributions  and even more about his personal life. This book, by a professor of  psychology at Bristol Community College and a member of the  International Tesla Society, painstakingly documents Tesla's  wide-ranging contributions. Born in Croatia, Tesla emigrated to the  United States in 1884 and almost immediately began work on alternatives  to what was then accepted as standard electrical technology. This  brought him into conflict with Edison and later Westinghouse. The  pattern of conflict continued for nearly 60 years, partially because  Tesla was far ahead of his time, partially because he was erratic and  off-beat, and partially because he was not an astute business partner.  Seifer has analyzed extensive sources, many not previously used by other  Tesla biographers, to provide a detailed interpretation of his life,  but the fact that he also incorporates extensive handwriting analysis to  arrive at several of his conclusions will certainly cause some reader  concern. For larger science and biography collections.?Hilary Burton,  Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Livermore, Cal.\u003cbr\u003e Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Booklist:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat  kind of genius can fathom the mysteries of electromagnetism but cannot  keep corporate lawyers from taking him to the cleaners? Perhaps because  his life did not culminate in wealth and acclaim, Nikola Tesla has  largely slipped from the national memory. Seifer's biography rescues him  from oblivion, bringing back to life the amazingly creative intellect  that gave us fluorescent lighting, wireless communication, cheap  electrical power, and the remote control. But Seifer also resurrects the  wounded, self-destructive personality who never recovered from the loss  of a favored older brother and who spiraled into weird obsessions,  mental collapse, and poverty as he watched other men use his inventions  to win fame and riches. Seifer does an admirable job of explaining his  subject's technical feats and analyzing his psychological  idiosyncrasies. Tinged with pathos, this meticulously researched  biography deserves attention from all who would understand the human  tragedies played out in the shadows of our neon culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBryce Christensen\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eA graduate of the University of Chicago and Saybrook University, \u003cb\u003eMarc J. Seifer\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D., is a retired psychology teacher from Roger Williams University. A handwriting expert who has testified in state and federal court, Dr. Seifer has lectured at West Point Military Academy, Brandeis University, the United Nations, the Open Center in New York, LucasFilms Industrial Light \u0026amp; Magic, at Oxford University and Cambridge University in England, and at conferences in Canada, Israel and Croatia and for the Serbian Academy of Sciences. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e His articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eWired, Civilization, The Historian, Psychiatric Clinics of North America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCerebrum.\u003c\/i\u003e Featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Scientific American,\u003c\/i\u003e Dr. Seifer has also appeared on Coast to Coast Radio\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e NPR’s “All Things Considered,” “The Morning Show” in Canberra Australia, on the BBC, and on TV on American Experience\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e The History Channel, and Associated Press International\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World, he is also the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eRasputin’s Nephew, Doppelgänger, Crystal Night\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Fate Line,\u003c\/i\u003e and the non-fiction works \u003ci\u003eTranscending the Speed of Light, The Definitive Book of Handwriting Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Framed! Murder, Corruption \u0026amp; a Death Sentence in Florida.\u003c\/i\u003e His book \u003ci\u003eWizard: The Life \u0026amp; Times of Nikola Tesla \u003c\/i\u003ehas been translated into nine languages including Serbian, Russian and Chinese.","brand":"Citadel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301651402981,"sku":"NP9780806539966","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780806539966.jpg?v=1767744448","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/wizard-isbn-9780806539966","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}