Summary
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance. Theirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastl... Full description
- pt. 1: converging lives
- Great expectations
- Lessons from the frontier
- From subjects to citizens
- pt. 2: partners in revolution
- Taking command
- "The most awful crisis"
- pt. 3: working together and apart
- Rendezvous in Philadelphia
- Darkness at dawn
- The walking stick.