Banvard's Folly

Banvard's Folly

2002 • 304 pages

History will always remember the Edisons, Einsteins and Darwins. But what about the others with similarly revolutionary ideas, but who plummeted into oblivion? This title tells of the lives of 13 losers, who achieved great heights in their lifetimes, only then to meet crushing defeats.

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Really interesting, best story was about a man whom drew a 3mile long painting of the Mississippi

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