Benjamin Franklin: A Biography (PBK); Author: Clark, Ronald W.; Paperback

Author: Clark, Ronald W.
PBK Edition; Paperback; 16 B&w
544 pages
Published: August 2001
Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 184212272X
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The first full-scale biography of Franklin in over 60 years! This fully documented account of the most versatile man of his age paints a lively portrait of the writer who invented the lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as an emissary in London trying to prevent the Revolutionary War; and the statesman who served as the US representative in Paris during the war, intriguing for French aid and American victory. A masterly work.The first full-scale biography of Benjamin Franklin for over sixty years. Benjamin Franklin was one of the most ingenious and versatile men of his age - a writer, inventor, politician, emissary and statesman. This biography gives a detailed account of the life of the first American.