After Madelaine Drohan left a long and distinguished career in journalism for graduate studies in history, she took on a largely forgotten aspect of the relationship between Canada and the United States. The result was her recently published book, “He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada.”
My conversation with Madelaine, who is now a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, has been edited for length and clarity.
