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ISBN10: 0385495404, ISBN13: 9780385495400, [publisher: Anchor Books, New York] Softcover Paperback. A biography of America's first Renaissance man discusses Benjamin Franklin's diverse roles as a scientist, businessman, philosopher, writer, inventor, diplomat, politician, wit, and Founding Father. A biography of America's first Renaissance man discusses Benjamin Franklin's diverse roles as a scientist, businessman, philosopher, writer, inventor, diplomat, politician, wit, and Founding Father. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. [Stevenage, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]
ISBN10: 0385495404, ISBN13: 9780385495400, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group] Softcover H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2002]
ISBN10: 0385495404, ISBN13: 9780385495400, [publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group] Softcover H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class. [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2002]
ISBN10: 0385495404, ISBN13: 9780385495400, [publisher: Anchor] Softcover PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST %u2022 Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this %u201Cthorough biography of . America%u2019s first Renaissance man%u201D (The Washington Post) by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War. "The authoritative Franklin biography for our time.%u201D %u2014Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin's "life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands" (The Dallas Morning News). From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America%u2019s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world%u2019s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin%u2019s greatness and humanity, The First American is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a ...
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