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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... his powers . " -John Brewer , The New York Review of Books The AMERICANIZATION of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GORDON S. WOOD WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE NOTABLE BOOK 2004 The New York Times Book Review OF THE YEAR. Front Cover.
... his powers . " -John Brewer , The New York Review of Books The AMERICANIZATION of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GORDON S. WOOD WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE NOTABLE BOOK 2004 The New York Times Book Review OF THE YEAR. Front Cover.
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... John Brewer , The New York Review of Books " Renowned historian Gordon S. Wood ... succeeds in closing the wide gap between the Franklin of popular imagination and the real Franklin .... An illu- minating , accessible and entertaining ...
... John Brewer , The New York Review of Books " Renowned historian Gordon S. Wood ... succeeds in closing the wide gap between the Franklin of popular imagination and the real Franklin .... An illu- minating , accessible and entertaining ...
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... John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award . His 1992 book , The Radicalism of the American Revolution , won the Pulitzer Prize and Emerson Prize . Wood contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New ...
... John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award . His 1992 book , The Radicalism of the American Revolution , won the Pulitzer Prize and Emerson Prize . Wood contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New ...
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... John Adams that Franklin combined “practical cunning” with “theoretick Ignorance,” but we may well share Adams's belief that he is “one of the most curious Characters in History.”2 Franklin has become, in the view of literary historian ...
... John Adams that Franklin combined “practical cunning” with “theoretick Ignorance,” but we may well share Adams's belief that he is “one of the most curious Characters in History.”2 Franklin has become, in the view of literary historian ...
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... West , 1783 199 Franklin , by Charles Willson Peale , 1785 214 Pat Lyon at the Forge , by John Neagle , 1826 242 THE AMERICANIZATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTRODUCTION THE FOLKSY FOUNDER Benjamin { xvi } ILLUSTRATIONS.
... West , 1783 199 Franklin , by Charles Willson Peale , 1785 214 Pat Lyon at the Forge , by John Neagle , 1826 242 THE AMERICANIZATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTRODUCTION THE FOLKSY FOUNDER Benjamin { xvi } ILLUSTRATIONS.
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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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