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A leading historian of the American Revolution offers an incisive portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmolitan lover of Europe, a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary, and an ambassador whose French diplomacy, crucial to the American cause, became a source of suspicion at home. 150,000 first printing.
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"[Wood] possesses as profound a grasp of the early days of the Republic as anyone now working..." --The New York Times Book Review
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"I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced..." --The New York Sun
"[Gordon Wood] conveys complex ideas in beguilingly simple prose, and deftly weaves the connections between the different Franklins." --John Brewer, The New York Review of Books
"Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other." --The Washington Post Book World
"An illuminating, accessible and entertaining contribution to the growing literature about Benjamin Franklin." --San Francisco Chronicle
Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University.
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- Publication date2004
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