Synopses & Reviews
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is a collaborative undertaking by a team of scholars at Yale University to collect, edit, and publish all of the writings and papers of one of America's most remarkable founding fathers and indeed one of the most extraordinary people this nation has ever produced.
To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, Yale University Press is offering all currently available volumes (1 through 37) of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin at the special price of $2,450 a 30% savings from $3,515, the price of the set when volumes are purchased individually. This special offer will only be available until January 17, 2007.
Synopsis
The thirty-seventh volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin This book, encompassing five months during 1782, promises to be one of the most significant volumes in the entire series of Benjamin Franklin's papers. Between March and August, Franklin mastered one of the greatest challenges of his diplomatic career by establishing the framework for a peace agreement with Great Britain.
The negotiations required enormous subtlety in order to mollify the French while also satisfying the British. Franklin's success was based upon the same strengths he had demonstrated several years earlier during the lengthy search for an alliance with the French government: an unswerving confidence in the rectitude and ultimate triumph of the American cause, immense patience, and an aptitude for one of the diplomat's most subtle arts--creating contrasting impressions for different audiences.