Publisher Description
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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“An extensive history of labor in America. Well researched. Provides the stories you don’t hear in school about the birth and development of the country. Government have always been joined at the hip (which this book shows). The difference in modern history is that they try and hide it more
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Carolyn (4 out of 5 stars)
