03703cam a2200865 4500
529032768
TxAuBib
20211108120000.0
||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u
9780385535496
038553549X
B008QLSWBO
Amazon
87a2e5dd-6f48-44da-92fd-c04c94b9e727
OverDrive
(Reserve ID)
7965
7965
7965
1004544
OverDrive
(Product ID)
TxAuBib
Ball, Edward.
The Inventor and the Tycoon
[Libby] :
A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures.
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
2013.
us history.
True Crime.
Biography.
conspiracy.
Movies.
Law and Order.
autobiographies.
art history.
Prison.
crime.
american history.
Film.
killers.
Death.
Comedy.
Autobiography.
Drama.
murder .
art.
true story.
FBI.
artist.
biographies.
Hollywood.
United States History.
History.
Music.
Criminal psychology.
True stories.
true crime book.
crime books.
history books.
true crime books.
true story books.
American history books.
fbi books.
biographies of famous people.
music biographies.
prison books.
gifts for writers.
art history books.
Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 23MB.
Format: OverDrive Kindle Book.
Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read.
Biography & Autobiography.
History.
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML:<b>From the National Book Award-winning author of <i>Slaves in the Family</i>, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.</b><br />  <br /> One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the...
Media Type: eBook.
Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22.
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87A2E5DD-6F48-44DA-92FD-C04C94B9E727&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook)
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87A2E5DD-6F48-44DA-92FD-C04C94B9E727&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
Excerpt (Kindle Book)
https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=87A2E5DD-6F48-44DA-92FD-C04C94B9E727&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
Excerpt (OverDrive Read)