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From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin's activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he put them.
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Carl Van Doren incorporates materials from Franklin's letters, manuscripts, journals, and published works to give the most accurate and comprehensive portrait ever written of this great American.
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Carl Van Doren (1885-1950) was a critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and, in 1911, a doctorate from Columbia University, where he went on to teach for nineteen years.
"The most comprehensive and the most intelligently sympathetic biography of Franklin we have."
-- "New York Times""A review of Mr. Van Doren's Benjamin Franklin can be nothing short of a eulogy. The greatest American has found a biographer worthy of him."
-- "The Nation""The picture is final, containing all the lights and shadows, all the episodes and the achievements of the most vital personality of his day."
-- "Atlantic Monthly""Patrick Cullen's narration [is] suitably smart, spirited, and gentle...There is inspiration here at every turn, and one is left feeling the tragedy of America is that Franklin didn't live to be 300--at least. Highly recommended for all collections."
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- PublisherBlackstone Publishing
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1470814439
- ISBN 13 9781470814434
- BindingAudio CD
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