Neil Baldwin, Author . Public Affairs $27.50 (416p) ISBN 978-1-891620-52-2
The strength of this biography lies in context: by emphasizing Ford's background, influences and the world around the auto manufacturer, Baldwin (executive director of the National Book Foundation and author of Edison: Inventing the Century, etc.
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Neil Baldwin, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-32543-5
Given the polarization of contemporary America, says historian and former National Book Foundation executive director Baldwin, "we need to turn to galvanizing beliefs that will provide a unifying focus...." To this end, Baldwin ably...
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Neil Baldwin, Author Clarkson N Potter Publishers $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-56001-3
Man Ray was a bundle of enigmasa Dadaist who revered the Old Masters, an anarchist coddled by wealthy patrons, an obsessive documenter of his own works who was relentlessly determined to erase his personal history. Born Emmanuel Radnitsky, son of a...
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Neil Baldwin, Author Da Capo Press $20 (464p) ISBN 978-0-306-80423-6
Man Ray, a photographer/object-maker/collagist unsatisfied with mastery of just a few mediums, struggled with painting and was shunned by the art world after his 1940s foray into Hollywood filmmaking. PW called this ``a model biography--judicious,...
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Neil Baldwin, Author Hyperion Books $14.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7868-8119-2
The boxed PW review of Baldwin's biography of the driven, contradictory inventor called it ``an inspirational American saga of titanic determination and protean imagination.'' (Feb.)
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Neil Baldwin, Author PublicAffairs $37.5 (256p) ISBN 978-1-891620-03-4
Baldwin, acclaimed biographer of Edison, Man Ray and William Carlos Williams, jettisoned his ""resolutely Eurocentric"" outlook 10 years ago, when he first visited Mexico. Mingling travelogue, history and a profound meditation on the clash between...
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Neil Baldwin, Author, JR. Harry Baldwin, Author Hyperion Books $27.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6041-8
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), who introduced the light bulb and the phonograph to a startled world from his pastoral New Jersey retreat, strides across Baldwin's engrossing epic biography as a complex, contradictory figure. The hearing-impaired...
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