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Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time
David Prerau
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| #255476 in Books | Basic Books | 2006-02-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.00 x10.00 x5.00l,.53 | Binding: Unknown Binding | 272 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| I learned so much from this book.|By ARG|I learned so much from this book. In a random internet sort of way, I learned that despite always getting the blame, farmers actually hated DST. It was set up for leisure and maybe the leisure class. Ben Franklin started us down this road because he was not in fact an early riser. The very contentious very fractured and very circuito|From Publishers Weekly|Why should the hours in a day be open to government interference? Who are politicians to dictate how clocks are set? In Preau's engrossing and highly readable history of Daylight Saving Time (DST), these questions are posed many times over
Benjamin Franklin conceived of it. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorsed it. Winston Churchill campaigned for it. Kaiser Wilhelm first employed it. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt went to war with it, and more recently the United States fought an energy crisis with it. For several months every year, for better or worse, daylight savings time affects vast numbers of people throughout the world. And from Ben Franklin's era to today, its story has been an intriguing an...
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