| A License to Steal Contributor(s): Shaw, Walter T. (Author), Robinson, Mary Jane (Contribution by), Barrett, Joe (Read by) |
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ISBN: 1433235757 ISBN-13: 9781433235757 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: Walter L. Shaw was a visionary high-tech inventor who was repeatedly cheated out of the rewards of his efforts. To even the score, his son became a prolific jewel thief, while Shaw Sr. put his brilliance to work for the mob. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - True Crime | Organized Crime |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.4" (0.30 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As early as the 1940s, Walter L. Shaw was thinking of speakerphones, conference calls, and call forwarding. Of the thirty-nine patents to his credit, those three telephonic breakthroughs were his biggest inventions, yet nobody knows his name. Ahead of the world by decades, Shaw spent a lifetime inventing and patenting the many means of communication we take for granted, but he was repeatedly cheated by shrewd businessmen and big corporations. His son, Walter T. Shaw, was enraged by the ill treatment of his father and embraced a personal mission to even the score. Shaw Jr. became one of the most prolific jewel thieves in US history, while Shaw Sr., in order to make ends meet for his family, was persuaded to put his brilliance to work for the mob. |
Contributor Bio(s): Robinson, Mary Jane: - Mary Jane Robinson is the founder of Story Books, a business committed to helping others preserve their life stories. She has composed more than seventy-five personal histories in the past twenty years. She lives with her family in Naples, Florida. Barrett, Joe: -Joe Barrett has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials. He has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and has been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. He has narrated books by such authors as Trevanian, Brian Freeman, Don Winslow, and James W. Huston. Shaw, Walter T.: -Walter T. Shaw, Jr., started his crime career as a bagman for the mafia and graduated to master jewel thief. He is now reformed and wrote A License to Steal about his father as an act of redemption. |