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The Count Of Concord, May 2008
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THE COUNT OF CONCORD
By: Nicholas Delbanco

Dalkey Archive Press
May 2008
On Sale: May 13, 2008
Featuring: Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
480 pages
ISBN: 1564784959
EAN: 9781564784957
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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 Based on countless historical documents, including letters and essays by Thompson himself, The Count of Concord brings to life the remarkable career of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.

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