Count of Concord - Brossura

Delbanco, Nicholas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1564784959 ISBN 13: 9781564784957

Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2008

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Nicholas Delbanco is a British-born American who received his B.A. from Harvard and his M.A. from Columbia University. He currently directs the Hopwood Awards Program and is the Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Michigan. An editor and author of more than twenty books, Delbanco has received numerous awards--among them a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

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 Based on countless historical documents, including letters and essays by Thompson himself, The Count of Concord brings to life the remarkable career of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.

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• Editore: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1564784959
• ISBN 13: 9781564784957
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 478