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Source: WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"
Roundup
8-26-05

Stacy Schiff & "A Great Improvisation"

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. Award-winning biographer Stacy Schiff talks about Franklin's years in Paris with guest host Susan Page of "USA Today." Schiff won a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Vera," a biography of the wife of Vladimir Nabokov.
Read entire article at WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"