The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781594200199.

A leading historian of the American Revolution offers an incisive portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmolitan lover of Europe, a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary, and an ambassador whose French diplomacy, crucial to the American cause, became a source of suspicion at home. 150,000 first printing.