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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... Massachusetts government after only one issue . The second , the Boston News - Letter , was founded in 1704 ; it became the first continuously published newspaper not only in Boston but in all of the North American colonies . The next ...
... Massachusetts government after only one issue . The second , the Boston News - Letter , was founded in 1704 ; it became the first continuously published newspaper not only in Boston but in all of the North American colonies . The next ...
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... Massachusetts government- like all governments in that pre - modern age , acutely sensitive to libels and any suggestion of disrespect finally found sufficient grounds to forbid James to publish his paper . James sought to evade the ...
... Massachusetts government- like all governments in that pre - modern age , acutely sensitive to libels and any suggestion of disrespect finally found sufficient grounds to forbid James to publish his paper . James sought to evade the ...
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... Massachusetts and the Dela- ware region , learned that Franklin was in Philadelphia , working in a print shop , he wrote to persuade the young runaway to return to Boston . The brother - in - law happened to show Franklin's reply to ...
... Massachusetts and the Dela- ware region , learned that Franklin was in Philadelphia , working in a print shop , he wrote to persuade the young runaway to return to Boston . The brother - in - law happened to show Franklin's reply to ...
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... Massachusetts family . Franklin's marriage was very different from that of the other Founders . It was sudden and seemingly without great advantage . Only two months after telling his sister that he was definitely not planning to get ...
... Massachusetts family . Franklin's marriage was very different from that of the other Founders . It was sudden and seemingly without great advantage . Only two months after telling his sister that he was definitely not planning to get ...
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Contenido
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17 | |
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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