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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the author of The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Wood presents an unusual portrait of this celebrated American folk hero, tracing...
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H. W. Brands, Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Government at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses his book, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000). He argues that Franklin...
Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution Came to New York
Historian Richard Ketchum is the author of the classic studies Decisive Day: The Battle for Bunker Hill ; The Winter Soldiers: The Battles for Trenton and Princeton ; and Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War . In...
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