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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Philip DrayPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Random House Trade Paperbacks Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.242kg ISBN: 9780812968101ISBN 10: 0812968107 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 27 December 2005 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThe best study of Franklin as a scientist ever written. -Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers Absorbing . . . There are other Franklins-the entrepreneur, the diplomat, the statesman, the architect of independence- but in Franklin the scientist, Mr. Dray may have found the happiest one of all. -The New York Times Delightful . . . Dray offers a survey of Ben Franklin's scientific career, describing both the ridicule and glory that his experiments inspired. -The Wall Street Journal A masterful glimpse of . . . Franklin's work [and] a captivating cultural history of Franklin's America. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) [An] illuminating study . . . elegantly written. -Los Angeles Times The best study of Franklin as a scientist ever written. <br>-Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Founding Brothers <br> Absorbing . . . There are other Franklins-the entrepreneur, the diplomat, the statesman, the architect of independence- but in Franklin the scientist, Mr. Dray may have found the happiest one of all. <br>-The New York Times <br> Delightful . . . Dray offers a survey of Ben Franklin's scientific career, describing both the ridicule and glory that his experiments inspired. <br>-The Wall Street Journal <br> A masterful glimpse of . . . Franklin's work [and] a captivating cultural history of Franklin's America. <br>-Publishers Weekly (starred review) <br> [An] illuminating study . . . elegantly written. <br>-Los Angeles Times Author InformationPHILIP DRAY is the author of At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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