Benjamin Franklin - Softcover
This fully documented account of 'the first American' gives a detailed and lively picture of the writer who invented the lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as emissary in London trying to prevent the American War of Independence; the statesman who, when war came, served as the United States representative in Paris, intriguing for French aid and American victory.
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Ronald Clark is the distinguished biographer of Bertrand Russell, Einstein, Sir Henry Tizard, Sir Edward Appleton and J B S Haldane. He has also written a family history of the Huxleys. His last book, Freud: The Man and the Cause, received great acclaim and was described in the Spectator as 'the best biography of Freud that we possess' and in the Guardian as 'masterly.'
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- PublisherDa Capo Press
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0306803682
- ISBN 13 9780306803680
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages530
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