The Technologists: A Novel

The Technologists: A Novel

The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril.
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The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearlâ€™s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word â€œtechnologyâ€ represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will hinge on . . .
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THE TECHNOLOGISTS
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Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wasteland, the daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into chaos, as shipsâ€™ instruments spin inexplicably out of control. Soon after, another mysterious catastrophe devastates the heart of the city. Is it sabotage by scientific means or Nature revolting against manâ€™s attempt to control it?
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The shocking disasters cast a pall over M.I.T. and provoke assaults from all sidesâ€”rival Harvard, labor unions, and a sensationalistic press. With their first graduation and the very survival of their groundbreaking college now in doubt, a band of the Instituteâ€™s best and brightest students secretly come together to save innocent lives and track down the truth, armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training.
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Led by â€œcharity scholarâ€ Marcus Mansfield, a quiet Civil War veteran and one-time machinist struggling to find his footing in rarefied Boston society, the group is rounded out by irrepressible Robert Richards, the bluest of Beacon Hill bluebloods; Edwin Hoyt, class genius; and brilliant freshman Ellen Swallow, the Instituteâ€™s lone, ostracized female student. Working against their small secret society, from within and without, are the arrayed forces of a stratified culture determined to resist change at all costs and a dark mastermind bent on the utter destruction of the city.
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Studded with suspense and soaked in the rich historical atmosphere for which its author is renowned, The Technologists is a dazzling journey into a dangerous world not so very far from our own, as the America we know today begins to shimmer into being.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2012-02-21
UnitCount 1
Format Deckle Edge
EANs 9781400066575

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2012-02-21
UnitCount	1
Format	Deckle Edge
EANs	9781400066575

The Technologists: A Novel

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