Robin McKown

CONTENTS

1 A BOYHOOD IN BOSTON

2 A YOUNG MAN ON HIS OWN

3 THE BIRTH OF POOR RICHARD

4 THE CIVIC-MINDED CITIZEN

5 THE THUNDER GIANT

6 A BRIEF MILITARY CAREER

7 THE BATTLE WITH THE PENNS

8 THE WHITE CHRISTIAN SAVAGES

9 THE STAMP ACT

10 FRIENDSHIPS IN ENGLAND

11 THE TERRIBLE HUTCHINSON LETTERS

12 BEGINNING OF A LONG WAR

13 THE SPLENDID WORD INDEPENDENCE

14 FRANCE FALLS IN LOVE WITH AN AMERICAN

15 AMERICA'S FIRST AMBASSADOR

16 A GLORIOUS OLD AGE

17 THE CLOSING YEARS

SUGGESTED READING

INDEX

THE Lives to Remember SERIES

Transcriber's Notes

by
Robin McKown

Publisher logo

G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York

To Rosalie Quine

Third Impression
© 1963 by Robin McKown
All rights reserved

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-9688

Manufactured in the United States of America

Published simultaneously in the Dominion of Canada
by Longmans Canada Limited, Toronto

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