02619nam 2200553 a 450 991046549140332120200520144314.00-87586-851-7(CKB)2560000000072596(EBL)684504(OCoLC)714569707(SSID)ssj0000540156(PQKBManifestationID)12180613(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540156(PQKBWorkID)10585717(PQKB)10054003(MiAaPQ)EBC684504(Au-PeEL)EBL684504(CaPaEBR)ebr10476872(EXLCZ)99256000000007259620110202d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe political trial of Benjamin Franklin[electronic resource] a prelude to the American Revolution /Kenneth Lawing PenegarNew York Algora Pub.c20111 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87586-849-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.A duel in Hyde Park -- Private letters, public causes -- Imperial over-reach : the political context of the letters -- Harvest of spite : reaction in the London press -- Preliminary hearing -- Showdown in the cockpit -- The verdict -- Circles of support -- Other perils and after shocks -- Second thoughts -- Going home, looking back.Benjamin Franklin, it seems, was a reluctant revolutionary. In tracing the course of his political transformation, this book explores the social and political understandings and misunderstandings that both sustained and divided Britain and its colonies in North America. At the center of the story is Benjamin Franklin's decision in late 1772 to use a cache of personal letters that had fallen in his lap in London for revelation in Massachusetts - essentially a Wikileaks for 1772 - and the consequences of that decision for himself and for the cause of an amicable settlement of differences betweenStatesmenUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesForeign relations1775-1783United StatesHistoryRevolution, 1775-1783CausesElectronic books.Statesmen973.3092BPenegar Kenneth Lawing970996MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465491403321The political trial of Benjamin Franklin2206936UNINA