It is 1888 and the engaging book, The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore opens with a vision of a workman installing electric lights on Broadway in New York, catching on fire and dying by electrocution. So begins this historical fiction that covers the war between Edison and Westinghouse over D/C and A/C currents and who would ultimately control the future of electricity. Soon to be a movie, this fascinating story accumulates with two closing events, the Chicago world’s fair when people really experienced the power of electric lights for the first time in their true blazing glory and the end of the long battle over control with the formation of General Electric in 1896. These characters based on historical figures gripped me, and all…