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Benjamin Franklin : inventing America /
Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia with little more than three loaves of bread under his arm. But this son of a soapmaker went on to lead perhaps the most extraordinary life of any American. With only two years of grammar school education, Franklin became, among other things, a printer, publi...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Improper Bostonian: Hooped petticoats and the folly of fashion
- B. Franklin, printer: Franklin in training
- for virtue
- Doctor Franklin: Solving the mystery of lightning and thunder
- Pennsylvania politics: Can the American colonies possibly unite?
- Road to separation: Franklin tries to sway public opinion in London
- War and peace: B. Franklin on J. Adams
- New nation and aged patriach: Franklin lobbies against slavery and the slave trade
- Chronology
- Further reading and websites
- Historic sites
- Index.