Franklin Washington: The Founding Partnership [Paperback]

Larson's elegantly written dual
biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was
indispensable to the success of the Revolution. —Gordon S. Wood 

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and
George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance. 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One ofWashington Post's 10 Books to Read in February  • One of USA Today’s “Must-Read
Books of Winter 2020  •  One of Publishers Weekly's
Top Ten  Spring 2020 Memoirs/Biographies

Theirs was a
three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the
United States. Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin—an abolitionist
freethinker from the urban north—and George Washington—a slavehold?ing general
from the agrarian south—were the indispensable authors of American independence
and the two key partners in the attempt to craft a more perfect union at the
Constitutional Convention, held in Franklin’s Philadelphia and presided over by
Washington. And yet their teamwork has been little remarked upon in the
centuries since.

Illuminating Franklin and Washington’s
relationship with striking new detail and energy, Pulitzer Prize–winning
historian Edward J. Larson shows that theirs was truly an intimate working
friendship that amplified the talents of each for collective advancement
of the American project.

After long sup?porting British rule, both Franklin and Washington became key early proponents of inde?pendence. Their friendship gained historls5