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The Resource Benjamin Franklin's last bet : the favorite founder's divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for American prosperity, Michael Meyer, (electronic resource)

Benjamin Franklin's last bet : the favorite founder's divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for American prosperity, Michael Meyer, (electronic resource)

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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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eng
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First edition.
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1 online resource
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9781328569110
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http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteId=372&titleId=6328622
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Benjamin Franklin's last bet : the favorite founder's divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for American prosperity
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Benjamin Franklin's last bet
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the favorite founder's divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for American prosperity
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Michael Meyer
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eng
Summary
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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1972-
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Meyer, Michael
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973.3092
Index
index present
LC call number
E302.6.F8
Literary form
non fiction
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  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Franklin, Benjamin
  • Legacies
  • Endowments
  • Working class
  • Working class
  • foundations (organizations)
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Benjamin Franklin's last bet : the favorite founder's divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for American prosperity, Michael Meyer, (electronic resource)
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http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteId=372&titleId=6328622
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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First edition.
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1 online resource
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9781328569110
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(OCoLC)1310687188
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Benjamin Franklin's last bet : the favorite founder's divisive death, enduring afterlife, and blueprint for American prosperity, Michael Meyer, (electronic resource)
Link
http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteId=372&titleId=6328622
Publication
Copyright
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
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  • text
  • still image
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  • txt
  • sti
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  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
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unknown
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource
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unknown
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online
Isbn
9781328569110
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
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683fc0a1-5518-458f-b6bd-696c1bf28879
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not applicable
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unknown sound
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remote
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(OCoLC)1310687188

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