List of Illustrations
Preface
1. The Association, 1747-1748
2. Electricity
3. Astronomy, Weather, and the Northwest Passage: Natural Philosopher, 1748-1757
4. Clerk, Councilman, and Magistrate, 1748-1751
5. The Academy and College of Philadelphia
6. Colonial Union, Dumping Felons in America, and Assemblyman, 1751
7. The Fundamental Document of the American Revolution, 1751
8. The Pennsylvania Hospital
9. Franklin's First Full Assembly, the Money Bill, and Susanna Wright, 1751-1752
10. Insurance: The Philadelphia Contributionship
11. Paper Currency, the Coming of War, and a Trip to New England, 1752-1753
12. The Carlisle Treaty, Postmaster General, a Trip to New England, and Assembly Sessions, 1753-1754
13. The Pennsylvania Germans
14. Assembly Sessions, the Snake Cartoon, and the Albany Conference, 1754
15. Boston, America and the Empire, and Katy Ray, 1754-1755
16. Libels on the Assembly, Quincy's Mission, and General Braddock, 1755
17. Assembly Crises, Crown Point, Parables, and Glimpses of Deborah, 1755
18. The French and Indians Attack and Pennsylvania Responds, 1755
19. General Franklin on the Frontier, 1755-1756
20. Rival Militias, Colonel Franklin, to Virginia, to New York, and Frontier Fighting, 1756
21. Military Tour to Carlisle, Harris's Ferry, and New York; Assembly Sessions and Easton Treaty, 1756-1757
22. Franklin in New York and at Sea, 1757
23. Assessing Franklin, Age 42 through 51
Appendices
1. New Attributions
2. Franklin's Residences and Real Estate to 1757
3. Electrical Terminology
4. The Influence of Benjamin Franklin's "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind" (1751) on Ezra Stiles, Richard Price, and Adam Smith; Thomas Malthus; Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin
5. Franklin's Plan of Union and the Albany Plan
6. Franklin's Saying: "Essential Liberty . . . Temporary Safety"
7. Post Office Expansion, 1753-1757
8. Franklin's Wealth, 1756
9. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
