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Leading up to the rally, the assembled strikers danced to songs like Queen’s “We Will Rock You” and Aretha Franklin??s “Respect...
...other freshmen seem to share Franklin??s emphasis on the major transition required between high school and college-level basketball...
Like vignettes, each of Brands’ chapters provides a concise, lyrical summary of five years in the life of Franklin and five years in the growth of the U.S. Never judging, Brands relays the events of Franklin??s life as a series of choices made by a man who understood the changing realities of the world in which he lived...
...Most of Franklin??s choices were self-interested. His political leanings had more to do with his family name and pocket than his ideals, at least until the Constitutional Convention. He tried to get his woefully incompetent son, William, appointed Royal Governor of New Jersey and opposed the Stamp Act not because of its assault on the rights of a free press but because printers happened to take a severe cut with each stamp they were forced to place on a newspaper...
...Franklin??s mysterious early life fades into the Franklin we know—the politician and statesman of Early America—Brands’ narrative becomes stale and overdrawn. The last third of Franklin??s life is dry and stuffy, just like the summer chambers of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia...