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The inventor and the tycoon a Gilded Age murder and the birth of moving pictures

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.

Main Author: Ball, Edward, 1959-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Doubleday, c2013.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Muybridge, Eadweard, > 1830-1904.
Muybridge, Eadweard, > 1830-1904 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Stanford, Leland, > 1824-1893.
Trials (Murder) > California > San Francisco.
Cinematography > United States > History.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Cinematographers > California > Biography.
Businesspeople > California > Biography.
Summary: 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.
Physical Description: xiv, 447 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-426) and index.
ISBN: 9780385525756 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0385525753 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780385535496 (electronic)
038553549X (electronic)
9780767929400 (pbk.)
0767929403 (pbk.)
Author Notes: EDWARD BALL is the author of four works of nonfiction, including the bestselling, National Book Award-winning Slaves in the Family . Born and raised in the South, he attended Brown University and received his MFA from the University of Iowa before coming to New York and working as an art critic for the Village Voice . He lives in Connecticut and teaches writing at Yale University.

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