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Book Review: ‘The Telephone,’ by James Gleick

Source NYT Books 人文9h ago
Summary

James Gleick’s latest book is an encyclopedic homage to the technology that dominated life, romantic and otherwise, in the last century.

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Culture
Region
United States
Language
English
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