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The Real Benjamin Franklin (American Classic Series)
The Real Benjamin Franklin (American Classic Series) The Real Benjamin Franklin: The True Story of America’s Greatest Diplomat. There are many Benjamin Franklins — or at least he has taken on many different forms in the history books of the last two centuries. Some historians have shown us an aged statesman whose wise and steadying [...]
Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series
Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.This book [...]
Benjamin Franklin, American Genius: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities (For Kids series)
Benjamin Franklin, American Genius: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities (For Kids series) Benjamin Franklin was a 17-year-old runaway when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1723. Yet within days he’d found a job at a local print shop, met the woman he would eventually marry, and even attracted the attention of Pennsylvania’s governor. A [...]
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin National Bestseller He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography. Wit, diplomat, [...]
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America’s founders helped define our national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life [...]
London Blood: Further Adventures of the American Agent Abroad: (Benjamin Franklin Mystery)
London Blood: Further Adventures of the American Agent Abroad: (Benjamin Franklin Mystery) A killer is stalking London’s women, leaving an ancient coin inscribed with the words “do what you will” by his victims’ bodies. It leads Franklin to the watering holes of the spoiled aristocracy, where drunken young men carouse with prostitutes and commit street [...]
Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution
Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution The inventor, the ladies’ man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of Franklin’s part in the American Revolution: except for Washington he was its most irreplaceable leader. Although aged and in [...]
Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz Reviews
Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps? Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its [...]
Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution
Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution Scientist, abolitionist, revolutionary: that is the Benjamin Franklin we know and celebrate. To this description, the talented young historian David Waldstreicher shows we must add runaway, slave master, and empire builder. But Runaway America does much more than revise our image of a beloved founding father. [...]