Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America by Philip Dray

Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America

Philip Dray

304 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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“Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.”–Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Frankl...

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