by Stacy Schiff · Owl Books (NY) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780805080094
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«A Great Improvisation» is the historical essay by Stacy Schiff published by Owl Books (NY) in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Benjamin Franklin arrives in France in 1776, aged seventy and with no diplomatic training, to get an absolute monarchy to fund American independence. Schiff recounts how he outwits British spies, French informers and hostile colleagues, secures the 1778 alliance and takes part in the 1783 peace.
Winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award in 2006.
For readers of American Revolution history, diplomacy and biographies of the founding fathers.
Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American writer. Her biography of Véra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator and author of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, colonial American-era polymath and prime mover of America's founding, Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's fellow Founding Father Samuel Adams, ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra, and the important figures and events of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–93 in colonial Massachusetts.
