Author:
Narrator: Peter Johnson
Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Penguin/Highbridge
Published: Jun 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - General
Retail Price: $34.95
Discs: 8
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. Simultaneous.