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The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth toddler came of age in aWe think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach deaf students to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. The Invention of Miracles takes a "stirring" ( The New York Times Book Review), "provocative" ( The Boston