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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Jonathan Lyons and Alysia Abbott, July 2, 2013 Author: Bob Edwards Narrator: Bob Edwards Format: Original Recording Length: 57 mins Language: English Release date: 07-02-13 Publisher: XM Satellite Radio Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews Publisher's Summary: In 1743, Ben Franklin made the case that it was time for colonists to give more thought to improving the lot of all of humankind through collaborative inquiry. From that call-to-action came an association dedicated to harnessing intellectual and creativity powers for the common good, the American Philosophical Society. Jonathan Lyons tells the story in a new book titled The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America. Then, motherless at the age of two, Alysia Abbott lived with her bisexual father in the aftermath of San Franciscos Stonewall riots. She recounts her unique adolesc