Lehrman American Studies Center

Books

• The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S. Wood
  • 4/5 Stars

  From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he…

• The first American: the life and times of Benjamin Franklin by H. W. Brands
  • 3/5 Stars
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
  • 0/5 Stars

Images

• Benjamin Franklin at the Court of Louis XVI ( na )
  • 0/5 Stars

Websites

• Benjamin Franklin -- A Documentary History by J. A. Leo Lemay
  • 3/5 Stars
• Franklin -- World of Influence -- Paris ( PBS )
  • 2/5 Stars

  When Franklin went to France as America's first ambassador, there were two superpowers in Europe: England and France, and the countries were very different. Like the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, England…