Benjamin Franklin Booklist

Fiction (all genres) and Nonfiction related to the 1929 crash. Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

Nonfiction

  • Benjamin Franklin
    Author: Morgan, Edmund S.
    Publisher: Yale $ 24.95 ISBN: 0300095325 Date: 2002
    star Publishers Weekly
    Chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and as a best book for 2002 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and Publishers Weekly. A finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. The greatest statesman of his age, Benjamin Franklin was also a pioneering scientist, a successful author, the first American postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant. In addition, he was a man of vast contradictions. This bestselling biography by one of our greatest historians offers a compact and provocative new portrait of America's most extraordinary patriot. - Publisher Marketing.
    Suggested Reading: 1776 Stars
    Updated 7.3.02