
Benjamin Franklin
Ronald W. Clark(Author)
Weidenfeld & Nicolson History (Publisher)
Published on 16. August 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
544 pages
978-1-84212-272-3 (ISBN)
Description
This fully documented account of ' the first American' gives a detailed and lively picture of the writer who invented the lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as emissary in London trying to prevent the American War of Independence; the statesman who, when war came, served as the United States representative in Paris, intriguing for French aid and American victory. In a series of masterly chapters Ronald Clark unravels the story of the successful printer and publisher whose electrical research brought him membership of the Royal Society, whose lobbying work played a part in the repeal of the notorious Stamp Act - one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the author and printer of Poor Richard's Almanack.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
16 B/W Photo\Illu(s)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
864 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84212-272-3 (9781842122723)
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Person
Ronald Clark is the distinguished biographer of Bertrand Russell, Einstein, Sir Henry Tizard, Sir Edward Appleton and J B S Haldane. He has also written a family history of the Huxleys. His last book, Freud: The Man and the Cause, received great acclaim and was described in the Spectator as 'the best biography of Freud that we possess' and in the Guardian as 'masterly.'