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Violence
Barely any
No violence; some competitive ruthlessness in a business context
Language
Barely any
Mild language in a period historical register
Sexual Content
None
No romantic or sexual content beyond some social courtship
Substance Use
Barely any
Period social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Barely any
The pressure of fighting for a client against impossible odds; the moral ambiguity of genius and corporate power
What this book is about
New York, 1888. Paul Cravath is a twenty-six-year-old lawyer with no experience, suddenly hired by George Westinghouse to defend him against Thomas Edison's patent lawsuit over the lightbulb. The War of the Currents — AC versus DC, Westinghouse versus Edison — is at its height. Paul navigates a world of inventors, industrialists, and the mercurial Nikola Tesla, who is both ally and mystery. Graham Moore's novelized account of this extraordinary moment in American history is a fast, smart legal thriller built around the question of how the modern world was actually made — and who paid for it.
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