Pre-Owned Tesla : All My Dreams Are True (Paperback) 9781682192825

Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda and episodes from the filmmaker s own restless quixotic career. In these pages we encounter Tesla s colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda s collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch Mark Twain and Sam Shepard Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations - vintage and personal photographs film stills drawings and comic-book art - enhance the sense of time travel and parallel histories as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy through the earth of the electrocution of an elephant of fortunes made and surrendered and of the obsessions that propel a scientist seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a movie. Contributor: Michael Almereyda