JOSIAH TUCKER WAS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S "BÊTE NOIRE
(AMERICAN REVOLUTION) TUCKER, Josiah. Series of Answers to Certain Popular Questions. Glocester, 1776.
First edition of Tucker's incendiary 1776 work in which he responds to both British and American positions on American independence, issued as news of the Revolution's opening battles reached Britain, expressing his long-held, "unique" and fiercely contentious views as Britain's "Cassandra," defending taxation of Americans even as he demanded "America be set free now," with Franklin known to make extensive comments in the margins of a copy now located in the Library of Congress, which he could have purchased in late December 1776. $3400.
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