Mount Vernon Bookshop DVD's, CD's and Videos Gifts & Reproductions Furniture & Home Décor Children's Corner In the Garden Christmas at Mount Vernon Gourmet Gifts New! New! New! Sale! Sale! Sale! Teaching Resources Membership Donate Home   Mount Vernon Book Shop / American History A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America By Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winning author. ISBN 0-8050-8009-0. 489 pages. Copyright 2005. Winner of the 2006 George Washington Book Prize as well as one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of the Year. “In December 1776, a small boat delivered an old man to France.” So begins a dazzling narrative account of Benjamin Franklin’s French mission, the most exacting and momentous eight years of his life. The French mission stands not only as Franklin’s most vital service to his country but as the most revealing of the man. It was Franklin that convinced France to underwrite the American Revolution, it was Franklin who would engineer the Franco-American alliance of 1778, and it was Franklin who helped negotiate the peace of 1783. The French posting would prove the most inventive act in a life of astonishing inventions. Hardcover Item #: 12415 Price: $30.00 Qty: Softcover Item #: 12416 Price: $16.00 Not in Stock General George Washington: A Military Life Iron Tears: America’s Battle for Freedom, Britain’s Quagmire: 1775-1783

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