In John Adams's worst nightmare, the story of the American Revolution assumed a different formulation: "The essence of the whole will be that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his rod-and thence forward these two conducted all the policy, negotiation, legislatures, and war.
( Stacy Schiff )
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