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Stealing God's Thunder

Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America

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Stealing God's Thunder

Written by: Philip Dray
Narrated by: David Chandler
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 Award-winning author Philip Dray delves into the lesser-known side of an American icon in Stealing God's Thunder. Benjamin Franklin, more often viewed as a statesman and founding father than as a man of science, challenged religion, science, and reason with his inventions. But in a time when everything was blamed on sin, it was the lightning rod, Franklin's attempt to control the heavens, that caused the greatest controversy.©2005 Philip Dray (P)2006 Recorded Books Historical Physics Professionals & Academics Science United States
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"Dray provides not only a masterful glimpse of this aspect of Franklin's work but also a captivating cultural history of Franklin's America." (Publishers Weekly)
"Tracing Franklin's beliefs through science, Dray's congenial history has information that will surprise even veteran Franklin fans." (Booklist)

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