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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Gordon S. Wood. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS BOOK HAS BEEN in my mind for many years . I first became inter- ested in writing about Franklin when I reviewed several volumes of his papers in the early 1970s . I let my thoughts about this ...
Gordon S. Wood. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THIS BOOK HAS BEEN in my mind for many years . I first became inter- ested in writing about Franklin when I reviewed several volumes of his papers in the early 1970s . I let my thoughts about this ...
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... Franklin Papers , not only for her careful reading of the manuscript , which saved me from many errors , but also for her making available to me a CD - ROM of the Franklin Papers , which includes those papers not yet published in the ...
... Franklin Papers , not only for her careful reading of the manuscript , which saved me from many errors , but also for her making available to me a CD - ROM of the Franklin Papers , which includes those papers not yet published in the ...
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... Franklin's French experience was in his Americaniza- tion , however , it was in the several decades immediately following his death in 1790 that the modern image of Franklin ... papers magnificently published in a modern letterpress edition , ...
... Franklin's French experience was in his Americaniza- tion , however , it was in the several decades immediately following his death in 1790 that the modern image of Franklin ... papers magnificently published in a modern letterpress edition , ...
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... Franklin fit the trade . Not only was young Franklin bookish , but he was also nearly six feet tall and strong with ... papers and saw in it a tool for self - improvement . He read the papers over and over again and copied and recopied ...
... Franklin fit the trade . Not only was young Franklin bookish , but he was also nearly six feet tall and strong with ... papers and saw in it a tool for self - improvement . He read the papers over and over again and copied and recopied ...
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... papers were expensive and numbered only in the hundreds of copies , they often passed from hand to hand and could reach beneath the topmost ranks of the city's population of twelve thousand , including even into the ranks of artisans ...
... papers were expensive and numbered only in the hundreds of copies , they often passed from hand to hand and could reach beneath the topmost ranks of the city's population of twelve thousand , including even into the ranks of artisans ...
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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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