Stacy Schiff Quote
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
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.