Stealing God's ThunderBy: Philip Dray Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklins scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy. Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science. But in Franklins day, the era of Enlightenment, long before he was an