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Julia Keller is also the author of Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It (Viking, 2008), which will be published in paperback by Penguin in May 2009. It is the story of the brilliant but ultimately tragic technological pioneer, now mostly forgotten, who created the world's first working machine gun.
Julia was born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. She graduated from Marshall University, then later earned a doctoral degree in English Literature at Ohio State University.
She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at Princeton and Ohio State Universities, and the University of Notre Dame. She is an essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. In 2005, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
Julia divides her time between Chicago and rural Ohio. ]]> female 2870749 0670018945 9780670018949 15 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/28/749/2870749-m-1256013259.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/28/749/2870749-s-1256013259.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2870749.Mr_Gatling_s_Terrible_Marvel_The_Gun_That_Changed_Everything_and_the_Misunderstood_Genius_Who_Invented_It 2.81 27 A Pulitzer Prize winner explores the role of the first machine gun in transforming America into a superpower

Although it was little used during the American Civil War—the time in which it was invented—the Gatling gun soon changed the nature of warfare and the course of world history. Discharging two hundred shots per minute with alarming accuracy, the world’s first machine gun became vitally important to protecting and expanding America’s overseas interests. Its inventor, Richard Gatling, was famous in his own time for creating and improving many industrial designs, from bicycles and steamship propellers to flush toilets. A man of great business and scientific acumen, Gatling actually proposed his gun as a way of saving lives, thinking it would decrease the size of armies and, therefore, make it easier to supply soldiers and reduce malnutrition deaths. The scientists who unleashed America’s atomic arsenal less than a century later would see it much the same way.

In Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the Gatling gun’s invention, its misunderstood creator, and its tremendous impact on American and world events. She also shows how the gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplified the paradox of America’s rise as a world superpower.]]> 1245113 3.00 49 26 2008 6450026 1606840487 9781606840481 8 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/64/26/6450026-m-1256013265.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/64/26/6450026-s-1256013265.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6450026-back-home 3.12 17 1245113 3.00 49 26 2009 7174428 1400156440 9781400156443 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7174428-mr-gatling-s-terrible-marvel 3.00 1 1245113 3.00 49 26 179329 3.69 74 14 2008