"A leadership study of the partnership between Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating how their teamwork won the Revolutionary War and secured America's future at the Constitutional Convention." --|c Provided by publisher.

Preface: "My dear friend" -- Book I: Converging lives. One: Great expectations -- Two: Lessons from the frontier -- Three: From subjects to citizens -- Book II: Partners in a revolution. Four: Taking command -- Five: "The most awful crisis" -- Book III: Working together and apart. Six: Rendezvous in Philadelphia -- Seven: Darkness at dawn -- Epilogue: The walking stick -- Notes -- Index.