| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A duel in Hyde Park -- Private letters, public causes -- Imperial over-reach : the political context of the letters -- Harvest of spite : reaction in the London press -- Preliminary hearing -- Showdown in the cockpit -- The verdict -- Circles of support -- Other perils and after shocks -- Second thoughts -- Going home, looking back. |
| Summary |
Benjamin Franklin, it seems, was a reluctant revolutionary. In tracing the course of his political transformation, this book explores the social and political understandings and misunderstandings that both sustained and divided Britain and its colonies in North America. At the center of the story is Benjamin Franklin's decision in late 1772 to use a cache of personal letters that had fallen in his lap in London for revelation in Massachusetts - essentially a Wikileaks for 1772 - and the consequences of that decision for himself and for the cause of an amicable settlement of differences between. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. |
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London.
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England -- London. |
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London. |
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American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) |
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Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
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Statesmen. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783.
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International relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1775-1783 |
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Penegar, Kenneth Lawing. Political trial of Benjamin Franklin. New York : Algora Pub., ©2011 9780875868493 (DLC) 2011004000 (OCoLC)696296728 |
| ISBN |
9780875868516 (electronic book) |
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0875868517 (electronic book) |
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9780875868493 (soft cover ; alkaline paper) |
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0875868495 (soft cover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780875868509 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0875868509 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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