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gantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution." Gordon S. WoodFrom 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.NATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of Washington Post's "10 Books to Read in February"One ofUSA TodaysMust-Read Books" of Winter 2020 One ofPublishers Weekly's "Top Ten"Spring 2020 Memoirs/BiographiesTheirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastly differentmen, Benjamin Franklinan abolitionist freethinker from the urban northand George Washingtona slaveholding general from the agrarian southwere the indispensable authors of American independence and the two key partners in the attempt to craft a more perfect union at the Constitutional Convention, held in Franklins Philadelphia and presided over by Washington. And yet their teamwork has been little remarked upon in the centuries since.Illuminating Franklin and Washingtons relationship with striking new detail and energy, Pulitzer Prizewinning historianEdward J. Larson shows that theirs was truly an intimate working friendship that amplified the talents of each for collectiveadvancement of the American project.After long supporting British rule, both Franklin and Washington became key early proponents of independence. Their friendship gained historical significance during the American Revolution, when Franklin led Americas diplomaticmission in Europe (securing money and an alliance with France) and Washington commanded the Continental Army. Victory required both of these efforts to succeed, and success, in turn, required their mutual coordination and cooperation. In the 1780s, the two sought to strengthen the union, leading to the framing and ratification of the Constitution, the founding document that bears their stamp.Franklin and Washingtonthe two most revered figuresin the early republicstaked their lives and fortunes on the American experiment in liberty and were committed to its preservation. Today the United States is the worlds great superpower, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries agothe power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral collegeas well as the wounds of their compromiseover slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of LarsonsFranklin & Washington,a major additionto the literature of the founding era.

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