The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin - Hardcover

Wood, Gordon S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159420019X ISBN 13: 9781594200199

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"[Wood] possesses as profound a grasp of the early days of the Republic as anyone now working..." --The New York Times Book Review

"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

About the Author:

Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 159420019X
• ISBN 13: 9781594200199
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 299