Hating
Patrice Higonnet, 14 November 1996
Benjamin Franklin and his Enemies
by Robert Middlekauf.
California, 276 pp., £19.95, March 1996,0 520 20268 6 Show More
by Robert Middlekauf.
California, 276 pp., £19.95, March 1996,
“... on the muzak and the mailing of America. It is no small relief, therefore, to be reminded by Robert Middlekauf, a leading historian of the American Enlightenment, that Franklin was in fact a complicated and charming man with the will heartily to dislike any number of people who stood in his way. People like William Penn, for example, the absentee ... ”