Wiliam Cabell Bruce

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Wiliam Cabell Bruce

1860–1946

Remembered as both a U.S. senator and a prizewinning biographer, he built a career that moved easily between public life and literary work. His books on Benjamin Franklin and John Randolph helped make him one of the more recognizable American historical writers of his era.

2 Audiobooks

Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings

Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings

by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings

Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings

by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

About the author

Born in Virginia in 1860, he trained as a lawyer and went on to build his public career in Maryland. He served in the Maryland Senate and later represented Maryland in the United States Senate from 1923 to 1929.

Alongside politics, he wrote history and biography with unusual success. His Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1918, and he also wrote a well-known study of John Randolph of Roanoke.

He died in 1946, leaving behind a career that joined law, politics, and literary scholarship. For readers interested in American public life, his work offers the perspective of a writer who knew both the world of ideas and the world of government from the inside.