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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

- The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
Af: Michael Meyer Engelsk Paperback

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

- The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
Af: Michael Meyer Engelsk Paperback
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The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.

Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. 

In Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin’s wager was misused, neglected, and contested—but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin’s stake in the “leather-apron” class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.

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The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age.

Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. 

In Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin’s wager was misused, neglected, and contested—but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin’s stake in the “leather-apron” class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9780063268562
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0063268566
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 25 apr 2023
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 136mm
Højde: 203mm
Forlag: HarperCollins
Oplagsdato: 25 apr 2023
Forfatter(e): Michael Meyer
Forfatter(e) Michael Meyer

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9780063268562

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 136mm

Højde 203mm

Udg. Dato 25 apr 2023

Oplagsdato 25 apr 2023

Forlag HarperCollins

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