Stealing God's thunder : Benjamin Franklin's lighning rod and the invention of America
(2006)
By:
Dray, Philip
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2006
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 30 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781449894146 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13525560, 1449894143 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13525560
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Narrated by David Chandler
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
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