Franklin in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates /

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Imprint:Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (xxxix, 196 pages).
Language:English
Series:Writers in their own time
Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11300572
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Other authors / contributors:Hayes, Kevin J.
Bour, Isabelle.
ISBN:1587299836
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America's first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master anecdotist whos.
Other form:Print version: Franklin in his own time. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011 9781587299827
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