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Benjamin Franklin and Polly Baker

Max Hall

Publisher: Omohundro Institute
Imprint: OIEAHC
Published: 12/1960
Reprint: 2012
Subject: Colonial, Revolutionary Era & Early American History, Biography & Autobiography
Paperback ISBN: 9780807839805

DESCRIPTION

Hall has made the first detailed investigation of Polly Baker. It leads through the exciting world of eighteenth-century journalism, literature, and statecraft. Ben Franklin occupies a position in the story second only to Polly Baker herself. Evident throughout is the tendency of people, even in an age of enlightenment, to believe what they see--provided they see it in print.

Originally published in 1960.

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