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Cargando... Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Fatherpor George Goodwin
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Although I had read Franklin's autobiography and some biographies of him, I had somehow not realized that he spent nearly all his time from 1757 to 1775 in London, primarily as agent for the Pennsylvania provincial assembly. I had known he acted as a colonial agent (eventually for other colonies as well --Georgia, New Jersey, and ultimately Massachusetts) but I had not realized how much time he spent in London or how much serious discussion he personally had with high-ranking British officials and opposition leaders. Ultimately his attempts to negotiate a satisfactory settlement to the colonial issues failed and he joined the revolution, but it seems clear that events could have gone differtly both for the colonies and for Ben himself. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
An absorbing and enlightening chronicle of the nearly two decades the American statesman, scientist, author, inventor, and Founding Father spent in the British imperial capital of colonial America For more than one-fifth of his life, Benjamin Franklin lived in London. He dined with prime ministers, members of parliament, even kings, as well as with Britain's most esteemed intellectuals-including David Hume, Joseph Priestley, and Erasmus Darwin-and with more notorious individuals, such as Francis Dashwood and James Boswell. Having spent eighteen formative months in England as a young man, Franklin returned in 1757 as a colonial representative during the Seven Years' War, and left abruptly just prior to the outbreak of America's War of Independence, barely escaping his impending arrest. In this fascinating history, George Goodwin gives a colorful account of Franklin's British years. The author offers a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most remarkable figures in U.S. history, effectively disputing the commonly held perception of Franklin as an outsider in British politics. It is an enthralling study of an American patriot who was a fiercely loyal British citizen for most of his life-until forces he had sought and failed to control finally made him a reluctant revolutionary at the age of sixty-nine. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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