Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair by Richard Moran

Executioner's Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair

Richard Moran

271 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history tense medium-paced
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In this amazing story of high stakes competition between two titans, Richard Moran shows how the electric chair developed not out of the desire to be more humane but through an effort by one nineteenth-century electric company to discredit the oth...

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