Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action

By James Thomas Flexner

Book Overview

James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University , Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his historical books, notably his four -volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many outlets. He has written for print and television; he has been a lecturer, columnist, reviewer, and even a fiction writer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823213765
• ISBN13: 9780823213764
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"