Wizard

""[""Wizard""] brings the many complex facets of [Tesla"'s] personal and technical life together in to a cohesive whole.... I highly recommend this biography of a great technologist."" --A.A. Mullin, U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, COMPUTING REVIEWS""[Along with ""A Beautiful Mind""] one of the five best biographies written on the brilliantly disturbed."" --WALL STREET JOURNAL""""Wizard ""is a compelling tale presenting a teeming, vivid world of science, technology, culture and human lives."" --NEW SCIENTIST""Marc Seifer is an excellent writer and scholar, who has produced a wonderfully readable and illuminating biography of one of the most intriguing men of this century... mak[ing] us understand not only the man, but also the times in which he lived. . . . [A] masterpiece."" --NELSON DEMILLE""The author presents much new material... [and] bases his book on a large number of archival and primary sources.... Underneath the layers of hero worship, the core of Seifer"'s book is a serious piece of scholarship."" --Ronald Kline, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ""Seifer has done a remarkable job going through all the Tesla manuscripts... ferret[ing] out hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles in which he traces out Tesla"'s public image [and] offers a reasonable reconstruction of Tesla"'s emotional world. . . . Seifer has significantly advanced our understanding of Tesla."" --Bernard Carlson, author of Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, for ISIS""It is my opinion that Dr. Seifer leads the world as the most authoritative of all the Tesla researchers."" --J.W. McGINNIS, President, International Tesla Society""Far and away the best job among Tesla biographies."" --Jeffrey D. Kooistra, INFINITE ENERGY""""Wizard ""is ... utterly absorbing with chapters charting all stages of Tesla"'s life.... Seifer treats his prodigious subject with sympathy and realism."" --NEXUS""Wizard... presents a much more accurate... picture of Tesla.... [It] is thorough, informative, entertaining and a valuable addition to electrotechnological history, past and future."" --ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING TIMES""In modern times, Tesla may be enjoying a comeback thanks to books like ""Wizard."""" --THE NEW YORK TIMES""Here is a deep and comprehensive biography of a great engineer of early electrical science. Indeed, it is likely to become the definitive biography of the Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla. .... Highly recommended."" --AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE