White Knight, Red Heat: The Many Lives of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

"President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that "Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Count Rumford are the greatest minds that America has produced," and indeed, Rumford was a peer of theirs, and arguably contributed more to the scientific canon, and yet is nowhere near as well known. White Knight, Red Heat tells the story of this notable figure in book form for the first time in over twenty years"--