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Undaunted Mind

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Nonfiction: History
Unabridged   15.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 08/15/2025

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Undaunted Mind

The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin

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Digital Download ISBN:9781696619912

Summary

In this gripping work, Benjamin Franklin is given a biography as rich and complex as his own intellectual life by master literary historian Kevin J. Hayes.

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Product Description

An exploration of the mind of one of America's most beloved Founding Fathers and most brilliant minds, through the books he read and his social circles in the United States and Europe.

Arguably the most intellectual, creative, cosmopolitan, and curious of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin is the only top-tier Founder not to have served as president. Despite not becoming the Chief Executive, Franklin played an active role in American politics and served the aspiring and young United States in the key European capitals. His prodigious reading and appetite for learning are epic. As he did in works about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Kevin J. Hayes interprets the life and mind of Franklin through what he read.

Author Bio

Kevin J. Hayes is professor emeritus of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of numerous books on American literature, history, and culture, including George Washington: A Life in Books, which won the George Washington Book Prize. He lives in his hometown of Toledo, Ohio.