Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity

by Michael Meyer

Book Overview

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin's parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia--a deathbed wager that captures the Founder's American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.

Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 132856889X
• ISBN13: 9781328568892
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"