Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit

by Sheila L. Skemp

Book Overview

On January 29, 1774, Benjamin Franklin was called to appear before the Privy Council--a select group of the king's advisors--in an octagonal-shaped room in Whitehall Palace known as the Cockpit. Spurred by jeers and applause from the audience in the Cockpit, Solicitor General Alexander Wedderburn unleashed a withering tirade against Franklin. Though Franklin entered the room as a dutiful servant of the British crown, he left as a budding American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195386566
• ISBN13: 9780195386561
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"