The release date for the English version of 'The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin' by
H.W. Brands is Mar 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War vividly brings Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the most important figure in colonial and revolutionary America, to life in this "thorough biography of... America's first Renaissance man," according to The Washington Post.
"The definitive biography of Franklin for the modern era." —Joseph J. Ellis, the author of Founding Brothers, which won the Pulitzer Prize
Benjamin Franklin's "life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands" (The Dallas Morning News). Franklin was a wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant. From impoverished escapee to immensely prosperous printer, from fiercely devoted British subject to mastermind of an alliance with France that guaranteed America's independence, Franklin rose from obscurity to become one of the most revered people in the world, surrounded by such luminaries as Hume, Burke, Kant, and Voltaire.
Renowned historian H. W. Brands has written an incredibly captivating biography of the eighteenth-century genius, drawing on a plethora of other sources as well as hitherto unpublished letters. The First American is a work of careful study that offers a stunning tour of a renowned historical character, a crucial moment in American society, and the several venues in which the erratic Franklin left his imprint. It serves as a much-needed reminder of Franklin's magnificence and humanity.
Look for THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt), REAGAN, and the other Andrew Jackson written by H.W. Brands.