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Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet: The Favorite Founder’s Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

byMichael Meyer

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. The argument in Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet develops through biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects the favorite founder’s divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for american prosperity to larger questions in biography & autobiography and business & economics, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences.

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9781328568892