Stacy Schiff: "A Great Improvisation" (Henry Holt)

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Stacy Schiff: "A Great Improvisation" (Henry Holt)

In December 1776, when Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old, he went to Paris to try to secure French support for the fledgling United States. An award-winning biographer talks about Franklin's years in Paris.

In December 1776, when Benjamin Franklin was 70 years old, he went to Paris to try to secure French support for the fledgling United States. An award-winning biographer talks about Franklin's years in Paris.

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Stacy Schiff

won a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Vera," a biography of the wife of Vladimir Nabokov.

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