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Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership / Edward J. Larson.

Larson, Edward J. (Edward John), (author.).

Summary:

Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin-- an abolitionist freethinker from the urban north-- and George Washington--a slaveholding general from the agrarian south-- were the indispensable authors of American independence and the two key partners in the attempt to craft a more perfect union at the Constitutional Convention. Their teamwork has been little remarked upon in the centuries since, but Larson illuminates Franklin and Washington's relationship. He shows that theirs was truly an intimate working friendship that amplified the talents of each for collective advancement of the American project. Both men-- the most revered figures in the early republic-- staked their lives and fortunes on the American experiment in liberty and were committed to its preservation. adapted from jacket

Record details

ISBN: 9780062880154
ISBN: 0062880152
Physical Description: xiv, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-321) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Book I. Converging lives. Great expectations ; Lessons from the frontier ; From subjects to citizens -- Book II. Partners in revolution. Taking command ; "The most awful crisis" -- Book III. Working together and apart. Rendezvous in Philadelphia ; Darkness at dawn ; The walking stick.