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Authors: Walter Isaacson

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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (87 page)

Twain, Mark

typeface

 

Under God
(Wills)

Union Fire Company

United States

bald eagle as national symbol of

Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences, and Pennsylvania Gazette, The

Updike, John

on BF’s
Autobiography
on BF’s transformation of Puritanism

urinary catheter

 

Van Doren, Carl

Vaughan, Benjamin

vegetarianism

Veillard, Louis-Guillaume le

Vergennes, Comte de

Adams and
Anglo-American peace negotiations and
BF’s first meeting with

Virgil

Virginia

BF’s postal inspection trips to
constitution of
Stamp Act crisis in

Virginia, University of

Virginia House of Burgesses

virtues, BF’s definitions of

Voltaire

 

“Walking Purchase,”

Wall, Samuel

Walpole, Richard

Walpole, Robert

Walpole, Thomas

Walpole Company

Walter, Thomas

Walters, Kerry

War of Austrian Succession

War of Jenkins Ear

Washington, George

BF and
BF’s correspondence with
Cincinnati Society and
at Constitutional Convention
in Ohio Valley missions
at Yorktown

Watson, Joseph

Watt, James

Watts, John

Way to Wealth, The
(Franklin)

Wealth of Nations, The
(A. Smith)

weather forecasting

Webb, George

Webbe, John

Weber, Max

Webster, Noah

Wedderburn, Alexander

welfare

Wentworth, Paul

West, Benjamin

Wharton, Samuel

Whigs

Whitefield, George,

White Oak Boys

Willard, Samuel

William & Mary

Williams, Jonathan

Williams, William Carlos

Wills, Garry

Wilson, Benjamin

Wilson, James

Winchester School

Winkler, Johann Heinrich

Winthrop, John

“Witch Trial at Mount Holly, A” (Franklin)

Wollaston, William

Wood, Gordon

Wygate (printer)

 

Yale University

Yankees at the Court
(Alsop)

Yardley, Jonathan

Yorktown, Battle of

Young, Michael

Young Men Associated clubs

 

Zall, P. M.

Zenger, John Peter

About the Author

Walter Isaacson is the president of the Aspen Institute. He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the managing editor of
Time
magazine. He is the author of
Kissinger: A Biography
and the coauthor, with Evan Thomas, of
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made.
He lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, D.C.

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