This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

“[An] instructive account…. Slack offers an exemplary retelling for a new generation.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Slack concentrates on telling a good story and telling it well.... [An] entertaining biography.” — Publishers Weekly

“A wonderfully detailed new biography.” — Forbes

“[A] page-turning portrait of an important and complicated woman.” — Richmond Times-Dispatch

“[A] nuanced portrait.” — Newsweek

“A fascinating book.” — New York Post

“Fascinating.” — Tucson Citizen

Charles Slack is the author of Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century, named one of the New York Public Library's twenty-five "Books to Remember" for 2002, and Blue Fairways: Three Months, Sixty Courses, No Mulligans. His writing has appeared in many national magazines. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Barbara, and their daughters, Natalie and Caroline.