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Benjamin Franklin in London - The British Life of America's Founding Father (Paperback)
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Benjamin Franklin in London - The British Life of America's Founding Father (Paperback)
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'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian 'Fantastic' Dan
Snow For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was
a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in
Philadelphia and established his fame as a renowned experimental
scientist, he crossed the Atlantic to live as a gentleman in the
heaving metropolis of London. With just a brief interlude, a house
in Craven Street was to be his home until 1775. From there he mixed
with both the brilliant and the powerful, whether in London coffee
house clubs, at the Royal Society, or on his summer travels around
the British Isles and continental Europe. He counted David Hume,
Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley, Edmund Burke and Erasmus Darwin
among his friends, and as an American colonial representative he
had access to successive Prime Ministers and even the King. The
early 1760s saw Britain's elevation to global superpower status
with victory in the Seven Years War and the succession of the
young, active George III. These two events brought a sharp new edge
to political competition in London and redefined the relationship
between Britain and its colonies. Though Franklin long sought to
prevent the break with Great Britain, his own actions would finally
help cause that very event. On the eve of the American War of
Independence, Franklin fled arrest and escaped by sea. He would
never return to London. With his unique focus on the fullness of
Benjamin Franklin's life in London, George Goodwin has created an
enthralling portrait of the man, the city and the age.
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