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Stealing God's Thunder
- Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
- Narrated by: David Chandler
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Stealing God's Thunder
Narrated by:
David Chandler
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Publisher's Summary
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
What the critics say
"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)