In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America’s Gilded Age—Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse—battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light , historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science...(展开全部)

吉尔·琼斯：作家和历史学家，在约翰-霍普金斯大学获得博士学位。她普被授予美国福特基金会奖和国家慈善基金会奖，曾著有《南布朗克斯区兴衰史》（South Bronx Rising）和《爵士乐手、缉毒警察和白日梦》（Hep–Cats,Narcs and Pipe Dreams）。她和家人住在美国马里兰州的巴尔的摩市。