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Philip Dray is the author of several books of American cultural and political history, including At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America.   He has also written a history of Benjamin Franklin's scientific endeavors, Stealing God's Thunder.  He has been the recipient of generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Â鶹´«Ã½É«ÇéƬ Faculty Research Fund.  He is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.  He lives in Brooklyn and in his spare time plays the piano or rides a Citiibike along the waterfront.