Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution / Jonathan R. Dull.

9780803234154 (electronic bk.)
0803234155 (electronic bk.)
1283050951
9781283050951
9786613050953
6613050954
9780803230330
0803230338
0803269528
9780803269521

Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010.

English

English.

1 online resource (ix, 171 pages)

E302.6.F8 D848 2010eb

(OCoLC)707973207

The inventor, the ladies' man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of Franklin's part in the American Revolution: except for Washington he was its most irreplaceable leader. Although aged and in ill health, Franklin served the cause with unsurpassed zeal and dedication. Jonathan R. Dull, whose decades of work on The Papers of Benjamin Franklin have given him rare insight into his subject, explains Franklin's role in the Revolution, what prepared him for that role, an.

"A Bison original."--Page 4 of cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-162) and index.

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Print version: Dull, Jonathan R., 1942- Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010

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