The Invention of Miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end deafness - Katie Booth Audiobook

Written by Katie Booth
Read by Samantha Desz
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Album : The Invention of Miracles - Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness
Track name : The Invention of Miracles - Part 01
Track_More : Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness
Performer : Katie Booth
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Publisher : Simon & Schuster - Audiobooks
Genre : Sociology
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comment : An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true—and troubling—story of the inventor of the telephone.
We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that’s not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts—or perhaps, more accurately, because of them—Bell had become the American Deaf community’s most powerful enemy.

The Invention of Miracles recounts an extraordinary piece of forgotten history. Weaving together a moving love story with a fascinating tale of innovation, it follows the complicated tragedy of a brilliant young man who set about stamping out what he…
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