Other Books by Robin McKown

THOMAS PAINE MARIE CURIE FOREIGN SERVICE GIRL PUBLICITY GIRL ROOSEVELT’S AMERICA WASHINGTON’S AMERICA THE FABULOUS ISOTOPES GIANT OF THE ATOM: Ernest Rutherford SHE LIVED FOR SCIENCE: Irène Joliot-Curie JANINE THE ORDEAL OF ANNE DEVLIN AUTHOR’S AGENT PAINTER OF THE WILD WEST: Frederick Remington PIONEERS IN MENTAL HEALTH

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Few men have more claims to greatness than Benjamin Franklin. He was in his long lifetime, writer, editor and publisher, scientist and inventor, propagandist for the cause of the American colonies, statesman, diplomat. He was a wit and a humorist, a loyal friend and a good family man. From his birth in Boston as the son of a poor candlemaker to his election by Congress as America’s first ambassador to France and his subsequent return to the United States, the author traces the fascinating development of an impetuous and saucy youth who became a beloved man both on his native soil and throughout the world.

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