Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

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by Walter Isaacson


  storage battery

  stove

  street lamp design

  swimming pads

  typeface

  urinary catheter

  Scientific Interests

  air currents

  assessment of

  BF’s writing style and

  color

  common cold

  electricity, see electricity

  evaporation

  Gulf Stream

  heat

  hull design

  importance and significance of

  lead poisoning

  magnetism

  maritime topics

  meteorology

  mock essays on

  population growth

  pragmatism of

  refrigeration

  saltiness of oceans

  ship speeds in canals

  smoky chimneys

  study of exercise

  weather forecasting

  Franklin, Benjamin (BF’s uncle)

  Franklin, Deborah Read (BF’s wife)

  BF on

  BF’s common-law marriage with

  BF’s correspondence with

  BF’s flirtations and

  BF’s relationship with

  children of; see also specific children

  death of

  home defended by

  personality of

  Strahan’s letters to

  stroke suffered by

  Franklin, Ebenezer (BF’s brother)

  Franklin, Elizabeth Downes (BF’s daughter-in-law)

  Franklin, Ellen (BF’s granddaughter)

  Franklin, Francis Folger (Franky) (BF’s son)

  Franklin, Henry (BF’s great-grandfather)

  Franklin, James (BF’s brother)

  BF’s break with

  BF’s reconciliation with

  Franklin, Jane (BF’s sister)

  BF’s correspondence with

  Franklin, John (BF’s brother)

  Franklin, John (BF’s uncle)

  Franklin, Josiah (BF’s father)

  BF’s description of

  BF’s education and

  BF’s printing venture and

  in chandler trade

  character of

  children of

  first marriage of

  library of

  in migration to America

  second marriage of

  Franklin, Josiah, Jr. (BF’s half-brother)

  Franklin, Mary (BF’s sister)

  Franklin, Peter (BF’s brother)

  Franklin, Sally (BF’s cousin)

  Franklin, Samuel (BF’s cousin)

  Franklin, Sarah (BF’s sister)

  Franklin, Sarah “Sally,” see Bache, Sarah Franklin “Sally”

  Franklin, Theodore (BF’s great-grandson)

  Franklin, Thomas (BF’s great-great-grandfather)

  Franklin, Thomas, II (BF’s grandfather)

  Franklin, Thomas, III (BF’s uncle)

  Franklin, William (BF’s son)

  age of

  appointed governor of New Jersey

  Asgill affair and

  BF’s correspondence with

  BF’s relationship with

  in BF’s will

  in Braddock expedition

  death of

  in flight to England

  Graeme courtship and

  illegitimate children of

  kite experiment and

  in London mission

  loyalist outlook of

  marriage of

  in Scotland

  Shelburne’s meeting with

  Temple Franklin’s relationship with

  in Trevose meeting

  trial of

  Franklin, William Temple (BF’s grandson)

  appointed to peace delegation

  BF’s relationship with

  birth of

  dandyish behavior of

  illegitimate son of

  Lee-BF feud and

  in Paris mission

  peace negotiations and

  Polly Stevenson and

  in visit to England

  William Franklin’s relationship with

  Franklin, The (barge)

  “Franklin Covey Organizers,”

  Franklin Drawing Electricity From the Sky (West)

  Franklin family:

  derivation of name

  dissenting streak of

  genealogical records of

  in migration to America

  religion and

  traits of

  Franklin Gothic (typeface)

  Franklin Institute

  Franklin Union

  Frederick II, King of Prussia

  Freemasons

  free press

  free speech

  free will

  Freke, John

  French and Indian War

  French Revolution

  BF’s perception of

  “Friendly Societies” (Defoe)

  Gadsen, Christopher

  Gage, Thomas

  Galileo Galilee

  Galloway, Joseph

  Garrick, David

  Gazette (Amiens)

  Gazetteer

  General Magazine

  Gentleman’s Magazine

  George II, King of England

  George III, King of England

  Georgia

  Germany

  Gerry, Elbridge

  Gibraltar

  Gilded Age

  “God and Liberty” benediction

  Godfrey, Mrs. Thomas

  Godfrey, Thomas

  Goode, Wilson

  Grace, Robert

  Graeme, Elizabeth

  Graeme, Thomas

  Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons

  Grand Ohio Company

  Granville, Lord

  Great Awakening

  Great Britain

  BF’s effort to join government of

  BF’s Paris mission and

  in peace negotiations see Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782

  Staten Island summit and

  Great Depression

  Great Seal

  Greene, Catherine Ray

  Greene, William

  Grenville, George

  Grenville, Thomas

  Griswold, A. Whitney

  Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace

  Gulf Stream

  Hadley, John

  Hall, David

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hamilton, Andrew

  Hamilton, James

  Hancock, John

  Harper’s

  Hartley, David

  Harvard College

  Hauksbee, Francis

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  “Heads of Complaint” (Franklin)

  Hell-Fire Club

  Helvétius, Anne-Catherine

  Helvétius, Claude-Adrien

  Hemphill, Samuel

  Henry, Patrick

  Henry VIII, King of England

  Herbert, Eugenia

  Herbert of Cherbury, Lord

  Herschbach, Dudley

  Hewson, Elizabeth

  Hewson, Mary Stevenson “Polly,”

  BF’s correspondence with

  death of

  marriage of

  Temple Franklin and

  Hewson, Tom

  Hewson, William (father)

  Hewson, William (son)

  Hillsborough, Lord

  “Hints for a Conversation” (Franklin)

  History and Present State of Electricity, The (Priestley)

  History of England (Berkeley)

  Homer

  Honest Whigs

  hospitals

  hot-air balloons

  Houdon, Jean-Antoine

  House of Burgesses, Virginia

  House of Commons, British

  House of Lords, British

  House of Representatives Massachusetts

  House of Representatives, U.S.

  Howe, Caroline


  Howe, Richard

  BF’s Staten Island summit with

  Howe, William

  Howells, William Dean

  How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)

  “Hue and Cry after the Busy-Body” (Keimer)

  Hughes, John

  hull design

  Hume, David

  “Hume’s fork,”

  Hunt, Leigh

  Hunter, William

  Hutchinson, Thomas

  purloined letters of

  Stamp Act crisis and

  Hutton, James

  Hyde, Lord

  Illinois Company

  Indiana Company

  Indians

  Albany Plan and

  in Carlyle conference

  Paxton Boys uprising and

  Proprietors and

  see also specific tribes

  Industrial Revolution

  “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America” (Franklin)

  Ingenhousz, Jan

  insurance associations

  “Interest of Great Britain Considered with Regard to Her Colonies” (Franklin)

  Ireland

  Iroquois confederacy

  Israel Potter (Melville)

  Izard, Ralph

  Jackson, James

  Jackson, Richard

  Jay, John

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Declaration of Independence written by

  Great Seal and

  in Paris mission

  Jeffrey, Francis, Lord

  Jenkins Ear, War of

  Jerman, John

  Jews

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Johonnot, Samuel

  Jones, John Paul

  background of

  Lafayette’s proposed attack and

  rape incident and

  in Serapis fight

  Johnson, Samuel (convention delegate)

  Johnson, Samuel (writer)

  Junto (Leather Apron Club)

  BF’s religious talk to

  debating style of

  members of

  models for

  as reflection of BF’s persona

  subscription library of

  topics guide of

  Jupin, Mademoiselle

  Kames, Henry Home, Lord

  Kant, Immanuel

  Keats, John

  Keillor, Garrison

  Keimer, Samuel

  Keith, William

  King (BF’s slave)

  King George’s War

  King Philip’s War

  Kinnersley, Ebenezer

  Kissinger, Henry A.

  Lafayette, Marquis de

  laissez-faire, doctrine of

  Landais, Pierre

  La Rochefoucauld, François de

  “Late Benjamin Franklin, The” (Twain)

  Laud, William

  Laurens, Henry

  Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent

  Lawrence, D. H.

  lead poisoning

  Leather Apron Club, see Junto (Leather Apron Club)

  Le Despencer, Francis Dashwood, Lord

  Lee, Arthur

  Bancroft suspected of spying by

  BF’s conflicts with

  Lee, Charles

  Lee, Francis Lightfoot

  Lee, Richard Henry

  Lee, William

  Leeds, Titan

  Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

  Lemay, J. A. Leo

  Le Roy, Jean-Baptiste

  “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania” (Dickinson)

  “Letters on England” (Voltaire)

  Leverett, John

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Lexington, Battle of

  Leyden jar

  Liberty Tree

  libraries

  Library Company of Philadelphia

  lightning rod

  Literary History of the American People (Angoff)

  Little Revenge, A (Randall)

  Lives (Plutarch)

  Livingston, Robert

  Locke, John

  Lodge of the Nine Sisters

  Logan, James

  London

  London Board of Trade

  London Chronicle

  London Evening Post

  London mission of

  BF-Deborah Franklin correspondence in

  BF-Penn confrontations in

  BF’s circle of friends in

  BF’s departure for

  BF’s genealogical excursion in

  BF’s Scotland trip in

  BF’s surrogate family in

  BF’s travels through England in

  BF’s trip to continent in

  Canada retention as issue in

  results of

  royal charter debate in

  taxation as issue in

  William Franklin in

  London mission of

  Bache-Sally Franklin romance in

  Bache’s visit in

  BF as colonial spokesman in

  BF-Deborah Franklin correspondence in

  BF’s cockpit ordeal in

  BF’s invention interests in

  BF’s motives in

  BF’s scientific experiments in

  BF’s social outlook and

  BF’s surrogate family in

  BF’s vacation in France in

  BF’s vacation of 1771 in

  BF-William Franklin rift in

  Deborah Franklin’s death and

  Hillsborough-BF confrontations in

  Howe-Chatham secret talks in

  Hutchinson letters affair in

  Stamp Act crisis in

  Stamp Act repeal battle in

  Townshend duties controversy in

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

  Lopez, Claude-Anne

  Louis XV, King of France

  Louis XVI, King of France

  McCullough, David

  McHenry, James

  Madison, James

  “magazine,”

  magnetism

  Maier, Paul

  Main Currents in American Thought (Parrington)

  Malthus, Thomas

  Mansfield, William Murray, Lord

  “Marche des Insurgents” (Brillon)

  Mareschal, Lord

  Marie, Queen of France

  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

  Marignac, Gabriel Louis de

  Markoe, Margaret

  Marriage of Figaro, The (Beaumarchais)

  Marshall Plan

  Martin, Luther

  Mary I, Queen of England

  Maryland

  Mason, George

  Mason & Dixon (Pynchon)

  Massachusetts

  anti-tax rebellion in

  Stamp Act crisis in

  Massachusetts Assembly

  Massachusetts Bay Colony

  Massachusetts Committee on Correspondence

  Massachusetts House of Representatives

  matching grant, concept of

  Mather, Cotton

  library of

  smallpox controversy and

  Mather, Increase

  Mather, Samuel

  May, Henry

  mechanical arm

  Mecom, Jane, see Franklin, Jane

  Mellon, Thomas

  Melville, Herman

  BF assessed by

  Meredith, Hugh

  “meritocracy,”

  Mesmer, Friedrich Anton

  meteorology

  Methodism

  Metternich, Klemens von

  middle class

  values of

  Middlekauff, Robert

  militia

  Militia Association

  Miller, Perry

  “minutemen,”

  Mississippi River

  “Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency, A” (Franklin)

  “Modest Proposal, A” (Swift)

  Mohawk Indians

  Monroe Doctrine

  Montesquieu, Baron
de la Brède et de

  Montgolfier, Etienne

  Montgolfier, Joseph

  moral perfection project

  “Morals of Chess, The” (Franklin)

  Morellet, André

  Morgan, Edmund,

  Morrill, Mary, see Folger, Mary Morrill

  Morris, Gouverneur

  Morris, Lewis

  Morris, Richard

  Morris, Robert

  Morris, Robert Hunter

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

  Musschenbroek, Pieter van

  “Narrative of the Late Massacres in

  Lancaster County, A” (Franklin)

  Nation

  Native Americans, see Indians

  natural rights, concept of

  Netherlands

  New England Courant

  “Silence Dogood” essays in

  smallpox dispute in

  Newfoundland

  New Jersey

  William Franklin appointed

  governor of

  New Jersey Gazette

  Newton, Isaac

  New York

  Nine Sisters, Lodge of

  Nini, Giovanni Battista

  Nollet, Abbé

  Norris, Isaac

  North, Lord

  North Carolina

  Oberg, Barbara

  “Observations on the Increase of Mankind” (Franklin)

  Ohio valley

  Olive Branch Petition

  “On Conciliation with America” (Burke)

  “On Conversation” (Franklin)

  “On Infidelity” (Bradford)

  “On the Laboring Poor” (Franklin)

  “On the Providence of God in the Government of the World” (Franklin)

  Osborne, Charles

  Oswald, Richard

  Ottawa Indians

  Oxford University

  Paine, Thomas,

  Palmer, Samuel

  Pamela (Richardson)

  paper currency

  Paris

  Paris, Ferdinand John

  Paris, Treaty of (1763)

  Paris mission of 1776–1785:

  Adams-BF rift and

  Adams in,

  Adams’s return to

  American commissioners in

  balloon fad in

  Bancroft’s spying activities in

  BF appointed minister plenipotentiary in

  BF’s appointment to

  and BF’s arrival in France

  BF’s attempted resignation from

  BF’s bagatelles in

  BF’s departure from

  BF’s diplomatic style in

  BF’s flirtatious relationships in

  BF’s household in

  BF’s mock scientific essays in

  BF’s public relations campaign in

  BF’s resignation from

  BF’s writing of Autobiography in

  commission-seeking supplicants in

  French loans in

  French policy in

  Jefferson in

  Lee-BF feud in

  Lodge of Nine Sisters controversy in

  Mesmer commission investigation in

  military alliance treaty in

  new European treaties in

  peace negotiations in, see Anglo-American peace negotiations of 1782

  planned attack on Britain in

  proposed Franco-American alliance in

  realism and idealism in

  Spain’s rejection of treaty in

  Temple Franklin in

 

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