The Americanization of Benjamin FranklinPenguin, 2005 M05 31 - 320 páginas “I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun “Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.” —The Washington Post Book World From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex—and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country’s idea of itself. |
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... American Dream . " -Newsday " In this brilliantly iconoclastic and utterly convincing reappraisal , Gordon Wood has shattered forever the comforting stereotype of Benjamin Franklin as the plainspoken , homespun American patriot , the ...
... American Dream . " -Newsday " In this brilliantly iconoclastic and utterly convincing reappraisal , Gordon Wood has shattered forever the comforting stereotype of Benjamin Franklin as the plainspoken , homespun American patriot , the ...
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... America today , let me know who it is . " -The New York Sun " In this absorbing narrative , one of our premier American historians has cap- tured the extraordinary interaction of a rising American people and the man who rose with them ...
... America today , let me know who it is . " -The New York Sun " In this absorbing narrative , one of our premier American historians has cap- tured the extraordinary interaction of a rising American people and the man who rose with them ...
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... America. And it is that popular image that seems to have the most resonance even today. Despite the continuing power of ... American. How he became one is the theme of this book. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS BOOK HAS BEEN in my mind for many.
... America. And it is that popular image that seems to have the most resonance even today. Despite the continuing power of ... American. How he became one is the theme of this book. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS BOOK HAS BEEN in my mind for many.
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... American , as the hardworking self - made businessman , for hundreds of thousands of middling Ameri- cans in the ... American , however , the historic Franklin of the eighteenth cen- tury was never destined to be that symbol . Franklin ...
... American , as the hardworking self - made businessman , for hundreds of thousands of middling Ameri- cans in the ... American , however , the historic Franklin of the eighteenth cen- tury was never destined to be that symbol . Franklin ...
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... American history has taken on such emblematic and imaginative significance for Americans as has Franklin. We may not ... American history.3 Scholars today tend not to believe anymore in the notion of an American character, but if there ...
... American history has taken on such emblematic and imaginative significance for Americans as has Franklin. We may not ... American history.3 Scholars today tend not to believe anymore in the notion of an American character, but if there ...
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Becoming a British Imperialist | 61 |
Becoming a Patriot | 105 |
Becoming a Diplomat | 153 |
Becoming an American | 201 |
Notes | 247 |
Index | 287 |
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