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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
One: The Association, 1747–1748
Two: Electricity
Three: Astronomy, Weather, and the Northwest Passage: Natural Philosopher, 1748–1757
Four: Clerk, Councilman, and Magistrate, 1748–1751
Five: The Academy and College of Philadelphia
Six: Colonial Union, Dumping Felons in America, and Assemblyman, 1751
Seven: The Fundamental Document of the American Revolution, 1751
Eight: The Pennsylvania Hospital
Nine: Franklin’s First Full Assembly, the Money Bill, and Susanna Wright, 1751–1752
Ten: Insurance: The Philadelphia Contributionship
Eleven: Paper Currency, the Coming of War, and a Trip to New England, 1752–1753
Twelve: The Carlisle Treaty, Postmaster General, a Trip to New England, and Assembly Sessions, 1753–1754
Thirteen: The Pennsylvania Germans
Fourteen: Assembly Sessions, the Snake Cartoon, and the Albany Conference, 1754
Fifteen: Boston, America and the Empire, and Katy Ray, 1754–1755
Sixteen: Libels on the Assembly, Quincy’s Mission, and General Braddock, 1755
Seventeen: Assembly Crises, Crown Point, Parables, and Glimpses of Deborah, 1755
Eighteen: The French and Indians Attack and Pennsylvania Responds, 1755
Nineteen: General Franklin on the Frontier, 1755–1756
Twenty: Rival Militias, Colonel Franklin, Virginia, New York, and Frontier Fighting, 1756
Twenty-One: The Easton Treaty and Assembly Sessions, 1756–1757
Twenty-Two: Franklin in New York and at Sea, 1757
Twenty-Three: Assessing Franklin, Age 42 through 51
Appendices
1. New Attributions
2. Franklin’s Residences and Real Estate to 1757
3. Electrical Terminology
4. The Influence of Benjamin Franklin’s “Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind” (1751) on Ezra Stiles, Richard Price, and Adam Smith; on Thomas Malthus; and on Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin
5. Franklin’s Plan of Union and the Albany Plan
6. Franklin’s Saying: “Essential Liberty … Temporary Safety”
7. Post Office Expansion, 1753–1757
8. Franklin’s Wealth, 1756
9. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
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