Marconi

masterly, incisive, richly detailed biography John Carey, Sunday Times [Marc Raboy] has achieved something rare, a consummate work of scholarship that is also compulsively readable John Carey, Sunday Times Raboy is especially adroit at portraying how Marconi was swept up in the modern world he helped create. New York Times Marconi really hums when Raboy details how his subject was implicated in the social and political effects of wireless. New York Times his biography is both a consummate work of scholarship and also compulsively readable The Sunday Times Raboy superbly traces every twist and turn of Marconi's life, showing us his influences, business strategies and shrewd management of his own public persona. Raboy skilfully locates his activities in the context of communications policy, the arms race between Britain and Germany, and popular culture W. Bernard Carlson, Nature a deeply researched and almost all-encompassing biography Andrew Robinson, New Scientist monumental ... impressive biography Gavin Weightman, Literary Review landmark biography ... Dominic Lenton, Engineering & Technology Magazine a comprehensive biography ... a compelling read ... Professsor Raboy is to be congratulated on producing this definitive biography that deserves a very wide readership David Harris, Radio User richly detailed and comprehensive biography Richard Owen, The Tablet Marc Raboy's book is by far the most comprehensive rendering of Marconi's life and times I have seen. Drawing on numerous and in some cases only recently available resources, Marconi's story is re-told in vivid terms and contemporary context. Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer Finally, the comprehensive, rounded, readable and deeply researched biography of Marconi that so significant a figure of change deserves. It is an elegant, ambitious, and brilliant treatment of an elegant, ambitious, and brilliant figure. Monroe E. Price, Director, Center for Global Communications Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Marconi is a tour de force, revealing the fascinating history of one of the most influential figures in the history of modern technology and the communications revolution. Employing a wide range of archival sources, Raboy crafts a highly readable story of a man who is at times heroic, at times a cad. He is unflinching in exposing the major role Marconi played in support of Mussolini's Fascist regime. David Kertzer, author of The Pope and Mussolini, Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Marc Raboy's book is by far the most comprehensive rendering of Marconi's life and times I have seen. Drawing on numerous and in some cases only recently available resources, Marconi's story is re-told in vivid terms and contemporary context. Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer