Carl Van Doren
Carl Van Doren (1885–1950) was a critic and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and, in 1911, a doctorate from Columbia University, where he went on to teach for nineteen years.
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Benjamin Franklin
- By: Carl Van Doren
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 32 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin’s activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the... Read more
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