| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. By Gordon S. Wood. (New York: Penguin, 2004. xviii, 299 pp. $25.95, ISBN 1-59420-019-X.)

Few American lives of the revolutionary generation were as intriguing as that of Benjamin Franklin, the son of a colonial Boston tallow chandler who later became a world-famous scientist and statesman. Spanning almost the entire eighteenth century (1706–1790), Franklin's personal journey from obscurity to eminence seems an appropriate symbol for the new American colony that evolved to an independent nation. Or is it?

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