The Franklin Stove

A Washington Post Noteworthy Book “[A] richly textured history . . . This story holds numerous lessons for our era.” — The New Yorker “From Joyce Chaplin’s engaging, wide-ranging pages a fresh Franklin emerges.” —Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Revolutionary “A fascinating, innovative, inventive look at a fascinating, innovative man and his inventions.” —Charles C. Mann, bestselling author of The Wizard and the Prophet and 1491 The surprising story of Benjamin Franklin’s most