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The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
Anchor
March 2002
Featuring: Benjamin Franklin
784 pages
ISBN: 0385495404
Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
He was the foremost
American of his day, yet today he is little more than a
mythic
caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin,
perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and
revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this
masterly biography.
Wit,
diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor,
and bon
vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America’s
first
Renaissance man. From penniless runaway to highly
successful printer,
from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an
alliance with
France that ensured America’s independence, Franklin went
from
obscurity to become one of the world’s 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on previously unpublished letters and a host of other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’s greatness and humanity, The First
American is
a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a
magnificent tour of a
legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life,
and the
countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his
legacy.
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