The Book of Generators

The readings from the Book of Generators, while morally instructive, were a bit like hauling shingles to Albany as far as we were concerned, for when one's whole life is devoted to studying such worthies as Tesla, Steinmetz, Nunn and Lambe, and outwitting their marketing schemes in a highly practical way, then further information on grand electrical figures and doings must be pigeonholed as "career development" rather than "entertainment."

from William T. Vollmann's You Bright and Risen Angels

The Book of Generators being yet another concocted American mythical pseudo-Bible and history, of the imaginary Society of Daniel, complete with Hagiography of the electrifying, pioneering lives of Nikola Tesla, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Lucien Lucius Nunn, and someone named Lambe. Although one of the narrators claims the Society of Daniel, which is headed by a man named Mr. White, is named after Daniel Boone, the Biblical underhand criticizing a modern Conservative, political and evangelical Christianity (e.g. the Rapture movement) currently in power ala Book of Daniel is ever present.