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My Life With Benjamin Franklin
by Lopez, Claude Anne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0300081928
- ISBN 13
- 9780300081923
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Yale Univ Pr, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Moderate wear, including small tear, to price-clipped dust jacket. This delighful book is a collection of incidental pieces that reveal little-known aspects of the life and personality of Benjamin Franklin. Written by the doyenne of Franklin scholars, it conveys Franklin's humour, resiliency, courage, and intelligence, and his faith in a better future. The selections are based on Claude-Anne Lopez's research in the treasure trove of nearly thirty thousand documents on Franklin assembled at Yale University. They include a detailed refutation of an anti-Semitic forgery attributed to Franklin and currently circulating on the internet; three mini-detective stories showing Franklin on the fringes of the espionage world; discussions of Franklin's efforts to outfit Washington's army and to choose the first dinner set for the Foreign Service; and the tale of the misadventures of a French utopian scheme he sponsored. The only piece of fiction in the book is an imaginary party during which, on the first anniversary of his death, six illustrious Frenchmen discuss Franklin's influence on their country. Lopez has provided brief personal introductions to each of the pieces, giving her reasons for writing them and in the process threading her essays together..
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- Bookseller
- The Unskoolbookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023460
- Title
- My Life With Benjamin Franklin
- Author
- Lopez, Claude Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0300081928
- ISBN 13
- 9780300081923
- Publisher
- Yale Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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