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Schiff, Stacy.

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A great improvisation : = Franklin, France, and the birth of America /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A great improvisation :/ Stacy Schiff.
Reminder of title:	Franklin, France, and the birth of America /
Author:	Schiff, Stacy.
Published:	New York :Henry Holt, : 2006.,
Description:	xvii, 489 p. :ill., ports. ;22 cm.
Notes:	"Owl book."
Subject:	France - Foreign relations - United States. -
ISBN:	0805080090 (pbk.) :

A great improvisation : = Franklin, France, and the birth of America /
Schiff, Stacy.

A great improvisation :Franklin, France, and the birth of America /Stacy Schiff. - 1st Owl Books ed. - New York :Henry Holt,2006. - xvii, 489 p. :ill., ports. ;22 cm.

"Owl book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-461) and index.

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Schiff tells how Benjamin Franklin--seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French--convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. When Franklin stepped onto French soil, he well understood he was embarking on the greatest gamble of his career. By virtue of fame, charisma, and ingenuity, he outmaneuvered British spies, French informers, and hostile colleagues; engineered the Franco-American alliance of 1778; and helped to negotiate the peace of 1783. From these pages emerge a particularly human and yet fiercely determined Founding Father, as well as a profound sense of how fragile, improvisational, and international was our country's bid for independence.

ISBN: 0805080090 (pbk.) :US21.00Subjects--Personal Names:

565044
Franklin, Benjamin,
1706-1790.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

612090
France
--Foreign relations--United States.

LC Class. No.: E183.8.F8 / S35 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 327.73044/09/033

A great improvisation : = Franklin, France, and the birth of America /
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