The Count of Concord (Dalkey American Literature) - Hardcover

Delbanco, Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1564785092 ISBN 13: 9781564785091

Verlag: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2008

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Narrated by the count's last-surviving relative, Sally Ormsby Thompson Robinson, a fictional portrait of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, describes the eclectic and distinguished career of the eighteenth-century politician, spy, philanthropist, and scientist. Simultaneous.

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Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, was—as Nicholas Delbanco writes— world famous in his lifetime, yet now he has been almost wholly forgotten. Like Delbanco himself, Sally Ormsby Thompson Robinson—the narrator of this novel and the Count s fictional, last-surviving relative—is haunted by one of history s most fascinating and remarkable figures. On par with Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, Count Rumford was, among many other things, a politician, a spy, a philanthropist, and above all, a scientist. Based on countless historical documents, including letters and essays by Thompson himself, The Count of Concord brings to life the remarkable career of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.

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• Verlag: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1564785092
• ISBN 13: 9781564785091
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 478