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Book SynopsisFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize
';Meticulously 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 Bell's 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 History 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 sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a
