Paper Brotherhood: Freemasonry, Money, and an Unfinished Union, 1774-1781

Twenty-two years before Congress ever argued about how thirteen colonies should become one country, the same argument had already happened once — and failed completely.In 1754, Benjamin Franklin brought a plan for colonial union to a room in Albany, New York. Every delegate present signed off on it. Every colonial assembly that received it afterward rejected it outright. Franklin filed the failure...