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Benjamin Franklin's Letters to the Press, 1758-1775

The History of a Literary Deception

Verner Winslow Crane

Publisher: Omohundro Institute
Imprint: OIEAHC
Published: 12/1950
Reprint: 2012
Subject: Colonial, Revolutionary Era & Early American History
Paperback ISBN: 9780807839522
eBook ISBN: 9780807839515

DESCRIPTION

This collection of Franklin's political writings contains more than double the number previously recognized as his. Much of this writing was performed during the intensive press campaigns for repeal by parliament of obnoxious measures, such as the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts. His letters reveal the adjustment he was making in his private ideas of British empire and American rights.

Originally published in 1950.

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