Franklin: The Essential Founding Father
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ISBN: 0895261049 / Publisher: Regnery History, July 2003
The author paints a vivid portrait of founding father Benjamin Franklin, arguing that the American republic would not have been possible without this Renaissance author, journalist, scientist, politician, diplomat, and bon vivant.
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Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer. From London, Paris, Philadelphia to his numerous romantic liaisons, Franklin's life becomes a panorama of dramatic history.
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