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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... James McArdell , 1761 Franklin , by Mason Chamberlain , 1762 18 58 86 87 87 88 Franklin , mezzotint by Edward Fisher , 1763 Deborah Franklin , by Benjamin Wilson , c . 1759 Franklin , by David Martin , 1766 88 89 126 Franklin ...
... James McArdell , 1761 Franklin , by Mason Chamberlain , 1762 18 58 86 87 87 88 Franklin , mezzotint by Edward Fisher , 1763 Deborah Franklin , by Benjamin Wilson , c . 1759 Franklin , by David Martin , 1766 88 89 126 Franklin ...
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... John Adams seems human enough , but he is too cranky and idiosyncratic to be in any way the kind of American hero ordinary folk can get close to . James Madison is much too shy and intellectual , and Alexander Hamilton INTRODUCTION.
... John Adams seems human enough , but he is too cranky and idiosyncratic to be in any way the kind of American hero ordinary folk can get close to . James Madison is much too shy and intellectual , and Alexander Hamilton INTRODUCTION.
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... James , who in 1717 had returned from England to set himself up as a printer in Boston . When James saw what his erudite youngest brother could do with words and type , he signed up the twelve - year - old boy to an unusually long ...
... James , who in 1717 had returned from England to set himself up as a printer in Boston . When James saw what his erudite youngest brother could do with words and type , he signed up the twelve - year - old boy to an unusually long ...
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... James Franklin for the owner , was the Boston Gazette . " These early newspapers were small , simple , and bland affairs , two to four pages published weekly and containing mostly reprints of old European news , ship sailings , and ...
... James Franklin for the owner , was the Boston Gazette . " These early newspapers were small , simple , and bland affairs , two to four pages published weekly and containing mostly reprints of old European news , ship sailings , and ...
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... James Franklin did not behave as most colonial printers did . When he decided to start his own paper , he was definitely not publishing it by authority . In fact , the New England Courant began by attacking the Boston establishment , in ...
... James Franklin did not behave as most colonial printers did . When he decided to start his own paper , he was definitely not publishing it by authority . In fact , the New England Courant began by attacking the Boston establishment , in ...
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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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