Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books, September, 2005 by Dunn, Elizabeth E.
Wood, Gordon S. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin New York: Penguin 299 pp., $16.00, ISBN 0-14-30-3528-2 Publication Date: May 2005
Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way Professor at Brown University, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards, "stewed" over his idea of a book on Benjamin Franklin for many years before producing this lively interpretation of the sage of Philadelphia's relationship to the American Revolution. Timed perfectly for Franklin's three-hundredth birthday in 2006, this particular version of his life focuses on the personal and political forces within the British empire that turned him away from his intense loyalty to the king and into one of the most radical among the founding fathers.
No surprises emerge in his...
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