Bibliograph

A great improvisation, Franklin, France, and the birth of America, Stacy Schiff

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A great improvisation, Franklin, France, and the birth of America, Stacy Schiff

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-461) and index

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contains biographical information

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A great improvisation

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Stacy Schiff

Sub title

Franklin, France, and the birth of America

Summary

In A Great Improvisation, Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. 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

Target audience

adult

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