The Invention of Miracles av Katie Booth

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<B><b>Finalist for the</b><b> PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography </b><BR><b>Finalist for </b><b>the Mark Lynton History Prize</b><BR><BR><b>“Meticulously researched, crackling with insights, and rich in novelistic detail” (Steve Silberman), this</b><b>“provocative, sensitive, beautifully written biography” (Sylvia Nasar) tells the true—and troubling—story of Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end deafness.</b><BR><BR>“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 <i>Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History </i></B><BR><BR>We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s 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 spr