I will be speaking at the Marconi Society‘s annual awards event in Palo Alto, California, November 1. See their blog post about the book.
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Marconi now available in Europe
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World is now available in Europe. Find it here.
Marc Raboy to speak next week at London School of Economics and Political Science
Marc Raboy will be speaking about his new book at LSE’s Department of Media and Communications on Tuesday, October 11th at 6:30.The name of the talk is The Man Who Networked the World: Guglielmo Marconi and the invention of modern communication. For more details, please visit the LSE event page. #LSERaboy
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.
Marc Raboy reads from Marconi at Montreal book launch
There was a full house at Montreal’s Robin des Bois restaurant tonight to celebrate the publication of Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World and hear the author read from the book. Watch the video
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.