Big Ben
Stephen Fender, 18 September 1986
Franklin of Philadelphia
by Esmond Wright.
Harvard, 404 pp., £21.25, May 1986,0 674 31809 9 Show More
by Esmond Wright.
Harvard, 404 pp., £21.25, May 1986,
“... Professor Wright’s third book on Benjamin Franklin is advertised as the ‘first comprehensive biography’ of the American printer, scientist and statesman ‘in fifty years’. What makes it possible is not only the life’s work of a British scholar but also, says the blurb, ‘Yale’s massive edition-in-progress of Franklin’s papers ... ”
