The Most Dangerous Man in America, Catherine Drinker Bowen
The Most Dangerous Man in America, Catherine Drinker Bowen
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The Most Dangerous Man in America
Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen

Narrator: Lois Betterton

Unabridged: 9 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/28/2010

Synopsis

There have been numerous biographies of Benjamin Franklin, including his own notorious autobiography. This is the most charming and captivating account of all. Every chapter is a bewitching gem, and Franklin lives and breathes on every page. This is the last book in Catherine Drinker Bowens brilliant career. With this, she did not intend to write a full narrative biography. Instead she proposed to write only what interested me about this most consistently entertaining biographical subject. Thus the book focuses on specific scenes in Franklins colorful life, including his youthful discoveries with electricity, activity in the Albany Congress of 1754, nine years in London and, of course, his part in Americas revolutionary plans.

About Catherine Drinker Bowen

Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973) was one of the most prominent practitioners in the field of literary biography. Her two best-known works, John Adams and the American Revolution and Yankee from Olympus, have been praised as faithful and sympathetic portraits of distinguished Americans.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luke

Benjamin Franklin was the first historical subject that got me hooked on early American biographies 10-15 years ago. As an electrical engineer I wanted to understand more about Franklin, so I read Isaacson's bio on him and loved it from my original, electrical intent perspective but also from the st......more

Goodreads review by Christina

Catherine Drinker Bowen is one of the best storytellers I know. I've read a few books about Ben, and what I appreciated in this book was the detail given to the moments she chose. For example, when he wrote his Silence DoGood letters, when he served on the Albany Congress, and his life in London as......more

Goodreads review by Judy

I just finished David McCullough's John Adams. John Adams started out admiring Franklin, but in Paris he found Franklin to be idle, a profligate spender, and a poor speaker of French. Catherine Drinker Bowen provides a contrasting portrait of Franklin the printer, scientist, and government emissary.......more

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