A tradesman in the age of reason -- A city upon a hill -- Journeyman printer -- we, the middling people -- The old England man -- The prime mover -- Two views of empire -- One community with one interest -- The ungrateful incendiary -- Bonhomme Richard
-- Plenipotentiary for the congress -- Patriarch of free men -- Father of all the Yankees?
Provides a biography analyzing Franklin's many-faceted public career, his ingenious inventions, prose style, and personality.
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