Benjamin Franklin Hayes Kevin J.
Benjamin Franklin Hayes Kevin J. An action-packed retelling of the life and work of the polymath and so-called First American, Benjamin Franklin.All Benjamin Franklin biographers face a major…
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Benjamin Franklin Hayes Kevin J.
An action-packed retelling of the life and work of the polymath and so-called First American, Benjamin Franklin.All Benjamin Franklin biographers face a major challenge: they must compete with their subject. In this exciting new account, Kevin J. In one of the greatest autobiographies in world literature, Franklin has already told his own story, and subsequent biographers have often taken Franklin at his word.
Subsequent chapters take in Franklin's career as a printer, his scientific activities, his role as a colonial agent, his participation in the American Revolution, his service as a diplomat, and his participation in the Constitutional Hayes takes a different approach.Hayes begins when Franklin is eighteen and stranded in London, describing how the collection of curiosities he viewed there fundamentally shaped Franklin's intellectual and personal outlook.