What's The Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
By Jean Fritz.
Description
The ""Big Idea"" was the connection between lightning and electricity, though Ben Franklin later played his part in advocating still another--American independence. Of course, as everyone knows, Franklin isn't the kind of man who can be tied down to any one or two ideas, and there have been other, amusing, accounts of his immersion in notions of all varieties and sizes, not to mention Monjo's rougish portrait of Poor Richard in France (1973). In a sense, bringing Jean Fritz's wit to bear on the subject of Franklin is like carrying coals to Newcastle, but t...
ISBN(s)
0590412051, 0698306171, 9780590412056
