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This is a print on demand publication. This study looks at how Benjamin Franklin approached his job as a diplomat & evaluates his performance. It is restricted to the wartime years of Franklin's French mission & concentrates on the activities author Dull considers most important. To illuminate Franklin, Dull discusses the individual people with whom he worked, the polity he represented, & the society in which he lives. Contents: Franklin's diplomatic background; The development of Franklin's negotiating style; Franklin the negotiator: securing the alliance; Franklin as head of mission; Franklin & the functioning of the alliance; Franklin the negotiator: securing the peace; & Franklin: diplomat & man.

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""Dull’s is the most carefully etched portrait of Franklin the diplomat to date and as such is an important contribution to our understanding of the man as well as the diplomacy of the Revolution."" -- Larry R. Gerlach * Pennsylvania History *

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