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Language
English
Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man” (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...
"The authoritative Franklin biography for our...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? George Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Benjamin Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently-- and soon heard themselves denounced...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow the development of government in the colonial period from the arrival of the first settlers to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
19) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 37
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
1,605 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea Clubhouse
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on the framing of the Declaration of Independence and the meaning of the document, describing the circumstances leading to the Revolutionary War and some of the challenges faced by the men who wrote the document.
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