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From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic-and winner of both Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes-comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the person he really was and makes sense of areas of his life and career that could have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure a lot more ambiguous and complex-and a lot more interesting. Charting the passing of Franklin's life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence in our country's idea of itself.
