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I think Szalai had the chance to read Edmund Morris's "Edison" and that may be the example of exactly the kind of elite Deneen wants. Edison and the American pure science establishment lived essentially in mutual contempt and for all his flood of invention and grand ventures like the "Ogden Baby" that got overtaken by the market he never really invented anything that he couldn't sell to a broad audience.

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