

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Gordon S. Wood
Narrator: Peter Johnson
Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 05/24/2004
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History, Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
Charting the passage of Franklin's life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country's idea of itself.