Benjamin Franklin
Chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and as a best book for 2002 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and Publishers Weekly. A finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a successful author, the first American postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant. In addition, he was a man of vast contradictions. This bestselling biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America's most extraordinary patriot
Biographies
xi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
9780300101621, 0300101627
671826724
An exciting world
"A dangerous man"
An empire of Englishmen
Proprietary pretensions
The importance of opinion
Endgame
Becoming American
Representing a nation of states
A difficult peace
Going home