Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World is one of ten books selected by jury for the 13th Annual BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. To see the list for 2017, please visit here. The shortlist will be announced on December 1st, and the award will be presented in February, 2017.
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Recent press: McGill News, The Tablet, Radio RTE
See the latest article, review and podcast about Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World: McGill News interview and article about the book A review in the international Catholic weekly The Tablet A report from Ireland’s county Wexford and interview on RTE 1 The History Show
Marconi now available in Europe
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World is now available in Europe. Find it here.
Marconi shortlisted for Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the world is shortlisted for the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction. Winners will be announced on October 25th. For more details, please visit GGBooks.
Marconi reviewed in Wall Street Journal
“Mr. Raboy’s book is a rock-solid, archivally based, professional work of history and surely one of the year’s better biographies.” Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World was reviewed today in the WSJ by Paul Kennedy. To read the full review, please visit “The World’s First Communications Giant”.
Marc Raboy begins term as Chair of McGill’s Department of Art History and Communication Studies
This Fall, Marc Raboy begins his term as the Chair of McGill University’s Department of Art History and Communication Studies. For more information, visit: www.mcgill.ca/ahcs
Marconi reviewed in New York Times. Major reviews have also appeared so far in Nature and New Scientist
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World was reviewed in the New York Times, Nature, and New Scientist. “[Raboy] is especially adroit at portraying how Marconi was swept up in the modern world he helped create… Marconi really hums when Raboy details how his subject was implicated in the social and political effects of wireless…Marconi, …
Excerpt from Marconi published in The Daily Beast
How Marconi Gave Us the Wireless World In giving us the wireless world, the Irish-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi was arguably the first truly global figure in modern communication Contact: A hundred years before iconic figures like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs permeated our lives, 60 years before Marshall McLuhan proclaimed media to be “the extensions …
Op-ed by Marc Raboy published in Los Angeles Times
“The first company that wanted to ‘connect the world’ wasn’t Google or Facebook” Marc Raboy publishes opinion piece in LA Times.
Book Announcement | Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
“An obvious labor of love, this is the definitive biography of Marconi.” —Susan J. Douglas, author of Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination “MARCONI is a tour de force, revealing the fascinating history of one of the most influential figures in the history of modern technology and the communications revolution.” —David Kertzer, author of The …