The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

by Gordon S. Wood

Whitmarsh, Thomas, 53-54

  Veyne, Paul, 254n66

  Wilkes, John, 127-29

  Virginia

  Wills, Garry, 1

  and Albany Plan of Union, 75, 76

  Wilson, Benjamin, 87, 87, 89

  Franklin’s recall from France supported by, 193

  Wilson, James, 123

  northern states surpassing, 245

  work. See labor

  and Stamp Act, 109 Voltaire, 172, 173, 180, 182, 231

  Young, Arthur, 39

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. His 1969 book, The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award. His 1992 book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer Prize and Emerson Prize. Wood contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books.