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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 Hardback

Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet

- The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American Prosperity
Af: Michael Meyer Engelsk Hardback
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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: 9781328568892
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 132856889X
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 12 apr 2022
Længde: 35mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 163mm
Forlag: HarperCollins
Oplagsdato: 12 apr 2022
Forfatter(e): Michael Meyer
Forfatter(e) Michael Meyer

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9781328568892

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 35mm

Bredde 235mm

Højde 163mm

Udg. Dato 12 apr 2022

Oplagsdato 12 apr 2022

Forlag HarperCollins

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