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Benjamin Franklin

Edmund S. Morgan

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#1784 of 3,809 books · #599 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2002).

Benjamin Franklin was chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, was a best book for 2002 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and Publishers Weekly, and was 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 biography offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America's most extraordinary patriot.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780786251452
Topics
Founding FathersAmerican RevolutionStatesmanship and public service

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