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Reviewed on July 15, 2005
Fruchtman (political science, Towson Univ.; Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom ) has written a readable volume made up of lively portraits of 11 intellectual "cousins" with whom Benjamin Franklin conversed in America, England, and France during that Age of Enlightenment. Included here are Anthony Benezet of Philadelphia and Granville Sharp of London, who helped shape Franklin's evolving stance against slavery. We also meet Britis...Log In or Sign Up to Read More