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Isaacson, Walter (Franklin, Benjamin)

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

New York, NY, USA: Simon and Schuster, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. “Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Issacson’s vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history’s..... More

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Wood, Gordon S. (Franklin, Benjamin)

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

New York, NY: The Penguin Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. “[I]t is a relatively selective study, focusing on specific aspects of this extraordinary man’s life that reveal a Benjamin Franklin who is different in important ways from the Franklin of our inherited common understanding,” (preface). In the two-hundred-some years since Benjamin Franklin (1705-1790) died, he has been oversimplified in the minds of Americans, according to Gordon Wood (b. 1933). Many..... More

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