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Apple founder Steve Jobs once hailed Edwin Land the founder of Polaroid and the father of instant photography as quota national treasurequot and once confessed to a reporter that meeting Land was quotlike visiting a shrinequot By his own admission Jobs modeled much of his own career after Landrsquos Both Jobs and Land stand out today as unique and towering figures in the history of technology Neither had a college degree but both built highly successful and innovative organizations Jobs and Land were both perfectionists with an almost fanatic attentiveness to detail in addition to being consummate showmen and instinctive marketers In many ways Edwin Land was the original Steve Jobs This riveting new biography visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land perhaps the most important yet least known inventor and technology entrepreneur in American history Landrsquos most famous achievement was the creation of a revolutionary film and camera system that could produce a photographic print moments after the picture was taken A Triumph of Genius takes you behind the scenes of this reclusive geniusrsquos discoveries triumphs and defeatsYoull learn details of Landrsquos involvement over four decades with top-secret US military intelligence efforts during World War II and through the Cold War in the service of seven American presidents Additionally youll thrill to the compelling first-hand look at one of our nationrsquos most important legal battles over intellectual propertymdashPolaroid versus Kodak This corporate and legal struggle is a story of almost operatic dimension What began as a cooperative and collegial relationship ended in Kodakrsquos betrayal The conflict led to an epic legal battle a dramatic event for Land who from the witness stand personally starred in a compelling courtroom drama More than a simple business biography A Triumph of Genius chronicles the man and the icon whose technological brilliance paved the way for another of the th centuryrsquos greatest innovators Steve Jobs.



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Ronald K. Fierstein

Ron lives with his wife in Chappaqua, NY, and spends as much time as he can at their second home on the beautiful island of North Hero, VT. They have two grown sons.



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