Benjamin Franklin
- ISBN-10
- 0195305353
- ISBN-13
- 9780195305357
- Series
- Benjamin Franklin
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography / Historical
- Pages
- 143
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-02-06
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Edwin S. Gaustad, Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies Edwin S Gaustad
Description
An engaging biography of Benjamin Franklin, published on the tricentennial of his birth, offers a marvelous portrait of this towering colonial figure, who, with only two years of formal education, managed to lead one of the most extraordinary lives in our nation's history.
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- 2020-08-07
- 390 pages
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