Menu
Edison’s Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of Historyâs Greatest Geniuses
Bottom of the pile
21
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
25/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Katie Spalding
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
Date:
May 16, 2023
While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there's probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn't. And the famous prodigies Spalding explores here were quite odd by any definition.
What The Reviewers Say
There’s something hopeful about a book setting out to tell us that our fabled geniuses were weirdos and goofballs. It supposes that greatness is still real enough to need demystifying. Spalding teases her subjects because, most of the time, she wants to express what was admirable about them.
Irreverent and entertaining.
Spalding delivers consistently lively, witty excursions into the sometimes-weird lives and beliefs of the famous.
Mathematician Spalding takes some of history’s most lauded savants down a notch in this gut-busting survey.
