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Stealing God's Thunder
Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Author: Philip Dray
Narrator: David Chandler
Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 03/11/2008
Category: History - United States
Synopsis
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.