PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Brayer's is a balanced picture of one of the modern era's seminal industrial figures; she has been able, for the first time, to draw on a wide range of sources, including personal papers and corporate records. --TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Brayer's admirably detailed biography is a fine work of reference. Personalities, social history, science: all are meticulously documented. George Eastman is a very welcome addition to one's biography shelves. --THE LITERARY REVIEW, BALTIMORE A history of technological revolution in the photographic medium and the emergence of big business via the Kodak empire...also a detail-rich look at turn-of-the-century central New York. --LIBRARY JOURNAL Brayer has written a candid, fact-crammed life of the first camera-and-film tycoon. --PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY Meticulously researched and clearly written, this book is unlikely to be rivaled and should be recognized as the standard work on the subject. Elizabeth Brayer should be congratulated on a magnificent achievement. A fitting tribute to one of the formative figures of modern times. --BOOKSHELF Brayer's big book triumphantly mines Eastman's correspondence and reports of those who knew him well. It is a complex and frequently sparkling story of invention, industrial growth in a changing America, personally managed philanthropy, and a little-known, intriguingly complex personality. --THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE The astute selection of letters and quotations from more than 20,000 records is a signal achievement. This biography is a fine wind and quotations from more than 20,000 records is a signal achievement. This biography is a fine window on the life of a most unusually t
