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Benjamin Franklin, Politician: The Mask and the Man
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Benjamin Franklin, Politician: The Mask and the Man Hardcover - 1996

by Jennings, Francis

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New York, N.Y., USA: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. 1st Edition . Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, with correct number line sequence, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, " NEW" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a polyester archival dust jacket cover. Beautiful collectible copy. GIFT QUALITY
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  • Title Benjamin Franklin, Politician: The Mask and the Man
  • Author Jennings, Francis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 244
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York, N.Y., USA
  • Date 1996
  • Features Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 003460
  • ISBN 9780393039832 / 0393039838
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.62 x 5.39 x 0.9 in (21.89 x 13.69 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Franklin, Benjamin, Statesmen - United States - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96003377
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

Benjamin Franklin was a man of genius and enormous ego, smart enough not to flaunt his superiority but to let others proclaim it. To understand him and his role in great events, one must realize the omnipresence of this ego, and the extent to which he mirrored the feelings of other colonial Pennsylvanians. With this in mind, Francis Jennings sets forth some new ideas about Franklin as the "first American". In so doing, he provides a new view of the beginnings of the American Revolution in Franklin's struggle against Thomas Penn. By striving against Penn's feudal lordship (and therefore against King George) Franklin became master of the Pennsylvania assembly. It was in this role that he suggested a meeting of the Continental Congress which, as Jennings notes, flies in the face of historical opinion which suggests that Boston patriots had to drag Pennsylvanians into the revolution. Franklin's autobiography omits discussion of his heroic struggle against Penn and, in so doing, robs history of his true role in the making of the new country. It is through an accurate accounting of what Franklin did, not what he said he did in his autobiography (which Jennings likens to a campaign speech), that we understand the author's use of the term "first American".

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/1996, Page 1121
  • Library Journal, 09/15/1996, Page 76
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/08/1996, Page 67

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