A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America Women's Adventure Fiction

A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America Women's Adventure FictionIn this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in

A beautifully written memoir that combines personal narrative with powerful analysis and cultural commentary

I told myself I was too smart to catch feelings

when they will taste the only bottle of one of the rarest wines in the world

and the lay-flat spine allows the Bible to open completely flat

gut-wrenching power are certain to make The Names a modern classic

In four distinct and riveting first-person voices

In this crisp and readable biography

She suspects that JB’s friend

stopping arguments

any request―I'm up for it

a pregnant Melissa was sent to a gloomy convent in Ireland to have— and give up—her baby

as told by Luke