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Dalkey Archive Press
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Featuring: Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
480 pages ISBN: 1564784959 EAN: 9781564784957 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Biography
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countless historical documents, including letters and essays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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