Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership

Franklin & Washington : the founding partnership

Franklin and Washington

1st ed.

New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.

xiv, 335 p., [16] colored p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

973.30922 L332 2020 MB

(OCoLC)1138991472

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 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, 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 ...-Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-321) and index.
L2020M26

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