Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
Michael Meyer
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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
Michael Meyer
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Meyer skillfully weaves a biography of Franklin into this story of his philanthropy.
Throughout this narrative of the checkered conformance to Franklin’s intentions, Meyer wryly injects apt adages from Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack into his own lively prose. A unique and entrancing investigation..
Engrossing.
Meyer’s book sheds fascinating light on an icon who has been reduced to a symbol..