Invention of miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness
Booth, Katie
Invention of miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness - New York: Simon and Schuster, 2021. - 402p.; hb; 24cm
Includes notes, bibliography and index
The Invention of Miracles takes a “stirring” (The New York Times Book Review), “provocative” (The Boston Globe), “scrupulously researched” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) new look at an American icon, revealing the astonishing true genesis of the telephone and its connection to another, far more disturbing legacy of Bell’s: his efforts to suppress American Sign Language. Weaving together a dazzling tale of innovation with a moving love story, the book offers a heartbreaking account of how a champion can become an adversary and an enthralling depiction of the deaf community’s fight to reclaim a once-forbidden language.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Invention-of-Miracles/Katie-Booth/9781501167096
9781501167096
Deaf--Education
Deaf--Means of communication
Speech--Study and teaching
United States
Inventors
Sign language
Teachers of the deaf
362.4283 / BOO
Invention of miracles: language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell's quest to end deafness - New York: Simon and Schuster, 2021. - 402p.; hb; 24cm
Includes notes, bibliography and index
The Invention of Miracles takes a “stirring” (The New York Times Book Review), “provocative” (The Boston Globe), “scrupulously researched” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) new look at an American icon, revealing the astonishing true genesis of the telephone and its connection to another, far more disturbing legacy of Bell’s: his efforts to suppress American Sign Language. Weaving together a dazzling tale of innovation with a moving love story, the book offers a heartbreaking account of how a champion can become an adversary and an enthralling depiction of the deaf community’s fight to reclaim a once-forbidden language.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Invention-of-Miracles/Katie-Booth/9781501167096
9781501167096
Deaf--Education
Deaf--Means of communication
Speech--Study and teaching
United States
Inventors
Sign language
Teachers of the deaf
362.4283 / BOO
