San Antonio College Library

A collection of readings offering contrasting interpretations of the significance of Benjamin Franklin's life, work, and writings and their influence on the American character.

New edition with three additional essays, edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Includes bibliographical references and index. The council of four, Paris, 1919 -- Mr. Lloyd George: a fragment -- Mr. Bonar Law -- Lord Oxford -- Edwin Montagu -- Winston Churchill --The great Villiers connection -- Trotsky on England -- Robert Malthus: the first of the Cambridge economists -- Alfred Marshall -- F.Y. Edgeworth --F.P. Ramsey -- William Stanley Jevons -- Newton, the...

"Charles James Fox PC (24 January 1749? 13 September 1806), styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned thirty-eight years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was particularly noted for being the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. His father was a leading Whig and Fox rose to prominence in the House of Commons as a forceful and eloquent speaker with a notorious and colourful...

This biography of Benjamin Franklin focuses on the first seventeen years of his life in Boston, years that shaped his thinking and during which he made his debut as a writer.

Analyzes the life of Mahatma Gandhi, including his ideas and his actions, examining critiques of the nonviolent leader and discussing his lasting influence; includes a glossary and a bibliography.