A great improvisation : Franklin, France, and the birth of America
Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Schiff tells how Benjamin Franklin--seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French--convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. When Franklin stepped onto French soil...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt,
2005.
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
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E 183.8 .F8 S35 2005 |
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