The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

“I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” — The New York Sun “Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.” — The Washington Post Book World From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a myt