Pub Date: April 29, 2008
Dewey: B
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.32" H x 8.02" L x 7.32" W ( 0.28 lbs) 160 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | Historical | Political | Science and Technology | History | United States | Revolutionary Period 17751800 | Colonial Period 16001775
Series: Lives & Legacies (Oxford)
Description: In this short, engaging biography, historian Edwin S. Gaustad offers a marvelous portrait of this towering colonial figure, illuminating Franklin's character, personality, and achievements. Here is truly one of the most extraordinary lives imaginable, a man who, with only two years of formal education, became a printer, publisher, postmaster, philosopher, world-class scientist and inventor, statesman, musician, and abolitionist. Gaustad presents a chronological account of all these accomplishments, delightfully spiced with quotations from Franklin's own extensive writings.