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Author
Series
The Library of America volume 37
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career ● Michael Douglas stars in Franklin, premiering April 12 only on Apple TV+
In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin—seventy years old, without any diplomatic training,
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"A jewel of musical history-- the story of Ben Franklin's favorite invention, the glass armonica-- including the composers who wrote for it (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, among others); Dr. Mesmer who used it to hypnotize; Marie Antoinette and the women who popularized it; its decline and recent comeback"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment--think "1776" meets "The Metaphysical Club." Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to AmericaNan intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia-a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent...
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues to abandon their traditional breakfast of beer and bread for "water gruel," a kind of tasty porridge he enjoyed. Franklin is known for his scientific discoveries,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance. Theirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin--an abolitionist freethinker from the urban north--and George Washington--a slaveholding general from the agrarian...
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