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Based on countless historical documents, including letters and essays by Thompson himself, The Count of Concord brings to life the remarkable career of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford.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