Webinar - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio with Tom Lewis

Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff—whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. It is a tale of virtue and vice, integrity and fraud, honor and greed, idealism and ambition, jealousy and envy, pride, and genius.  Tom Lewis presents these men and their achievements in a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak.  Empire of the Air is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between inventor and corporation.

Tom Lewis is Professor Emeritus of English at Skidmore College. His most recent book is Washington. In addition to his numerous books, he has written and produced award-winning documentary films for Florentine Films and public television. He lives in Maine.

6:00pm EST webinar, gratis. Advance registration required. Registrants will receive the link to join the webinar in a confirmation email. Purchase Empire of the Air here.