Benjamin Franklin
By: Edwin S. Gaustad.
Series: Lives and legacies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780195305357
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Statesmen -- United States -- Biography; Scientists -- United States -- Biography; Inventors -- United States -- Biography; Printers -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The improper Bostonian : hooped petticoats and the folly of fashion; title: B. Franklin, printer : Franklin in training for virtue; title: Doctor Franklin : solving the mystery of lightning and thunder; title: Pennsylvania politics : can the American colonies possibly unite?; title: The road to separation : Franklin tries to sway public opinion in London; title: War and peace : B. Franklin on J. Adams; title: New nation and aged patriarch : Franklin lobbies against slavery and the slave trade.