Benjamin Franklin (Lives and Legacies)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780195368703
Subjects: American history; American history: c 1500 to c 1800; History of ideas, intellectual history; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: American; USA; Historical - U.S.; Political; United States - 18th Century; History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800); United States - Colonial Period; United States - Revolutionary War
First sentence: AMONG BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S MANY TALENTS WAS HIS GIFT FOR satire: making fun of the noble and the mighty, of the proud and pretentious, and on occasion even of the British Empire itself.