A great improvisation: Franklin, France, and the birth of America
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVII, 489 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0805066330 9780805066333 |
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| adam_text | In December
ered an old man to France. So begins a
dazzling narrative account of Benjamin
Franklin s French mission, the most exacting
and momentous
When Franklin embarked, the colonies
were without money, munitions, gunpowder,
or common cause; like all adolescents, they
were to discover that there was a difference
between declaring independence and achiev¬
ing it To close that gap Franklin was dis¬
patched to Paris, amid great secrecy, across a
winter sea thick with enemy cruisers. He was
seventy years old, without any diplomatic
training, and possessed of the most rudimen¬
tary French. He was also among the most
famous men in the world.
-Franklin well understood that he was off
on the greatest gamble of his career. But
despite minimal direction from Congress he
was soon outwitting the British secret service
and stirring a passion for a republic in an
absolute monarchy. He would leave more of
an imprint of himself than he did elsewhere;
in France he was not the famously elusive
Franklin but a very conspicuous one, his
image reproduced on teacups and wallpaper,
his every word publicly recorded.
The French mission stands not only as
Franklin s most vital service to his country
but as the most revealing of the man. In Paris
he was by turns indomitable and vulnerable, a
brilliant negotiator and an abysmal adminis¬
trator.,He was at the height of his power, iso¬
lated, sabotaged by opportunists, at odds with
his colleagues, preyed upon by French and
British spies. Fortunately, he was no innocent
abroad; he succeeded brilliantly. It was in
large part on account of his fame, charisma,
and ingenuity that France underwrote the
(Continued ok back fxap)
040
(Continued
American Revolution; it was Franklin
who would engineer the Franco-American
alliance of
peace of
prove the most inventive act in a life of aston¬
ishing inventions.
In A Great Improvisation Pulitzer Prize
winner Stacy
and thrilling account of Franklin s Parisian
adventure and of America s debut on the
world stage. Here is the unfamiliar chapter of
the Revolution, a rousing tale of American
infighting and treacherous backroom deal¬
ings.
intrigue from new and little-known primary
sources, working from a host of diplomatic
archives, family papers, and intelligence
reports. From her pages emerges a particu¬
larly human Founding Father, as well as a
vivid sense of how fragile, improvisational,
and international was our country s bid for
independence.
Stacy
of
Nabokov), which won the
2000
raphy, and
which was a finalist for the
1995
has received fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation and the
National Endowment for the Humanities,
and was a Director s Fellow at the Center for
Scholars and Writers at the New York Public
Library.
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