Welcome to the American History Podcast.

Hosted by Sean Worswick.

Hello and welcome back to the show.

Today we've got a special treat.

It's our final author, bonus interview episode for a little while.

But that's actually not the treat.

The treat is that we have Kathy Joseph on today. Now, you may not know her, but Kathy is the author of a book that is a bit

different, and the book is called The Lightning Tamers, True Stories of the Dreamers and Schemers

who harnessed electricity and transformed our world. Now, Kathy holds degrees in physics, engineering, and science. Definitely

way more technical than me. And I am happy to have her on the show. So Kathy, welcome.

Thanks for having me on, Sean. This is so exciting. It is a history book. So it's just the history of technology book.

It's right.

And I often say this.

I may say this on every episode that I do that's an author interview.

I try to pick books that don't read like a history PhD wrote them just because, I mean,

I have a master's and a bachelor's in history, but, you know, we're not the best writers all the time.

And this definitely does not read like a history book per se.

It doesn't read like a, it doesn't read like a scientist wrote.

It reads, man, it's just a great read.

So guys, go out there. You're going to see

the link in the show notes page. Go check it out. I think you're going to love this book. Everybody's

got Christmas money to spend, right? So, um, spend a little bit on this. This is a great, great book.

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