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Franklin of Philadelphia / Esmond Wright.
Record no.:
5400
Author:
Wright, Esmond.;
Publisher:
Cambridge, Mass. :: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
Year:
1986.
Description:
xvii, 404 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-391) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0674318099 9780674318090;
Abstract:
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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