02611cam a2200385 i 4500 269587744 TxGeo 20160810120000.0 151221s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015050362 9780812988901 hbk. 0812988906 hbk. (OCoLC)933386185 TxGeo rda Moore, Graham, 1981- The last days of night : a novel / Graham Moore. First edition. New York, NY : Random House, 2016. 368 pages : map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. The task facing him is beyond daunting. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. P. Morgan himself. Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. How will he do it? In obsessive pursuit of victory, Paul crosses paths with Nikola Tesla, an eccentric, brilliant inventor who may hold the key to defeating Edison, and with Agnes Huntington, a beautiful opera singer who proves to be a flawless performer on stage and off. As Paul takes greater and greater risks, he'll find that everyone in his path is playing their own game, and no one is quite who they seem. 20160817. With bookplate : Donated by the Friends of the Georgetown Public Library. Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Fiction. Westinghouse, George 1846-1914 Fiction. Businesspeople Fiction. Inventors Fiction. Electric lighting Fiction. Patents Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. QS5