Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership
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New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
ISBN
9780062880154, 0062880152, 9780062880161, 0062880160
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Founding Fathers of the United States -- Biography.
Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- 1783-1815 -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
Washington, George, -- 1732-1799.
Founding Fathers of the United States -- Biography.
Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- History -- 1783-1815 -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Biography.
Washington, George, -- 1732-1799.
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Published
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xiv, 335 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780062880154, 0062880152, 9780062880161, 0062880160
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-478).
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance. Theirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin--an abolitionist freethinker from the urban north--and George Washington--a slavehold-ing 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, held in Franklin's Philadelphia and presided over by Washington. And yet their teamwork has been little remarked upon in the centuries since. Illuminating Franklin and Washington's relationship with striking new detail and energy, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson shows that theirs was truly an intimate working friendship that amplified the talents of each for collective advancement of the American project. During the French and Indian War, Franklin supplied the wagons for General Edward Braddock's ill-fated assault on Fort Duquesne, and Washington buried the general's body under the dirt road traveled by those retreating wagons. After long sup-porting British rule, both became key early proponents of inde-pendence. Rekindled during the Second Continental Congress in 1775, their friendship gained historical significance during the American Revolution, when Franklin led America's diplomatic mission in Europe (securing money and an alliance with France) and Washington commanded the Continental Army. Victory required both of these efforts to succeed, and success, in turn, required their mutual coordination and cooperation. In the 1780s, the two sought to strengthen the union, leading to the framing and ratification of the Constitution, the founding document that bears their stamp. Franklin and Washington--the two most revered figures in the early republic--staked their lives and fortunes on the American experiment in liberty and were committed to its preservation. Today the United States is the world's great super-power, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries ago--the power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral college--as well as the wounds of their compromise over slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of Larson's Franklin & Washington, a major addition to the literature of the founding era."--Publisher's website.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Larson, E. J. (2020). Franklin & Washington: the founding partnership (First edition.). William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Larson, Edward J. 2020. Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership. William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Larson, Edward J. Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Larson, Edward J. Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership First edition., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
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