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Stephen Case

Washington, D.C.
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Co-founder @AOL, CEO @Revolution, Chair @CaseFoundation, author @ThirdWaveBook & #RiseOfRestBook, and champion of rising cities and startups that call them home

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The Franklin Stove

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By Stephen Case
| Washington Independent Review of Books
Benjamin Franklin’s “stoves” — meant for heating, not cooking — were heavy cast-iron contraptions about the “size of a side table,” writes Joyce E. Chaplin. Burning fewer logs than other devices, they boasted ingeniously located metal plates that channeled the fire to radiate more heat and expel smoke more efficiently than other woodstoves. Harvard history professor Chaplin, a superb scholar, has written in The Franklin Stovea reader-friendly, fact-packed, and meaty book.
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Crick: A Mind in Motion

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By Stephen Case
| Washington Independent Review of Books
“We found the secret of life!” Francis Crick apocryphally boasted to strangers right after he and colleague James Watson discovered the double-helix structure of DNA in 1953. (Yes, their findings were that monumental, but Watson later confessed the boast was concocted.) The British Crick was, at the time, a 37-year-old doctoral candidate at Cambridge, as well as an impecunious, divorced and remarried, tall, skinny, balding father of two who spoke with a high-pitched voice.
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The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642

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By Stephen Case
| Washington Independent Review of Books
Should one feel sorry for beleaguered King Charles I of England? Such empathy will come easily for readers of the excellent The Blood in Winterby Oxford don Jonathan Healey. Inheriting the British throne in 1625, Charles was immediately besieged by uppity members of Parliament seeking to chip away at his monarchical powers. These attackers never gave up, and their persistence led, in the summer of 1642, to civil war and (sadly for him) Charles’ beheading in 1649.
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