Benjamin Franklin [electronic resource] / Edwin S. Gaustad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaustad, Edwin S. (Edwin Scott)

Series:

Lives and legacies.

Lives and legacies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

Scientists--United States--Biography.

Scientists.

Inventors--United States--Biography.

Inventors.

Printers--United States--Biography.

Printers.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, ""the greatest man and ornament of his age."" In this short, engaging biography, historian Edwin S. Gaustad offers a marvelous portrait of this towering colonial figure,illuminating Franklin's character and personality. Here is truly one of the most extraordinary lives imaginable, a man who, with only two years of formal education, became a printer, publisher, postmaster, philosopher, world-class scientist and inventor, statesman, musician, and abolitionist. Gaustad p

Contents:

The improper Bostonian

B. Franklin, printer

Doctor Franklin

Pnnsylvania politics

The road to separation

War and peace

New nation and aged patriarch.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-135) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4237-8512-6

1-60256-577-5

1-280-53474-5

OCLC:

171572697