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Cookie akzeptierenMichael Meyer
Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet
- HarperCollins
- 2022
- Gebunden
- 368 Seiten
- ISBN 9781328568892
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
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