Praise for AC/DC "You'll never look at your wall socket the same again." --Evan Ratliff, coauthor, Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World "From the twisted copper wires of electricity's early years McNichol spins a story buzzing with genius and fraud, ambition and infamy, hilarity and humiliation. It's a joy to read: a comic operetta of American industrial history, full of great men, small minds and an alarming number of dead dogs." --Craig Stoltz, health editor, Washington Post "Few writers explain technology as well as Tom McNichol. No one's as good at finding the humor in it." --Jeffrey O'Brien, senior editor, Wired magazine "A fascinating history of the battle that decided what comes through the wires when we flick a switch. A great story of how far people will go to prove they're 'right' - and make a buck." --J. J. Yore, executive producer, public radio's Marketplace "A tale of astonishing genius and greed, a perfect reflection of the competing forces that built corporate America. McNichol offers us a ringside seat at the birth of a superpower, and it's a bloody, messy, and altogether fascinating spectacle." --Brooke Gladstone, cohost, NPR's On the Media