Title The political trial of Benjamin Franklin : a prelude to the American Revolution / Kenneth Lawing Penegar.

Publication Info.	New York : Algora Pub., [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	A duel in Hyde Park -- Private letters, public causes -- Imperial over-reach : the political context of the letters -- Harvest of spite : reaction in the London press -- Preliminary hearing -- Showdown in the cockpit -- The verdict -- Circles of support -- Other perils and after shocks -- Second thoughts -- Going home, looking back.
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Summary	Benjamin Franklin, it seems, was a reluctant revolutionary. In tracing the course of his political transformation, this book explores the social and political understandings and misunderstandings that both sustained and divided Britain and its colonies in North America. At the center of the story is Benjamin Franklin's decision in late 1772 to use a cache of personal letters that had fallen in his lap in London for revelation in Massachusetts - essentially a Wikileaks for 1772 - and the consequences of that decision for himself and for the cause of an amicable settlement of differences between.
Subject	Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
	Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- London.
	Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. (OCoLC)fst00034115
	American Revolution (1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
	Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
	United States -- Foreign relations -- 1775-1783.
	United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
	HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
	Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
	Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
	Statesmen. (OCoLC)fst01131990
	England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1775-1783
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Penegar, Kenneth Lawing. Political trial of Benjamin Franklin. New York : Algora Pub., ©2011 9780875868493 (DLC) 2011004000 (OCoLC)696296728
ISBN	9780875868516 (electronic bk.)
	0875868517 (electronic bk.)

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