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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... Richard's Almanack that Franklin had become “the counselor and household friend to almost every family in America.” No matter that Franklin's proverbs “were all about getting money and saving it,” they were “suited to the condition of ...
... Richard's Almanack that Franklin had become “the counselor and household friend to almost every family in America.” No matter that Franklin's proverbs “were all about getting money and saving it,” they were “suited to the condition of ...
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... Richard sayings and proverbs , such as " Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy wealthy and wise . " Those who wanted to know the way to wealth read Franklin . He has stood for industry , frugality , thrift , and every ...
... Richard sayings and proverbs , such as " Early to bed and early to rise , makes a man healthy wealthy and wise . " Those who wanted to know the way to wealth read Franklin . He has stood for industry , frugality , thrift , and every ...
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... Richard ordinariness that made him vulnerable to criti- cism . As William Dean Howells noted , Franklin came down to the end of the nineteenth century " with more reality than any of his contempo- raries . " Although this " by no means ...
... Richard ordinariness that made him vulnerable to criti- cism . As William Dean Howells noted , Franklin came down to the end of the nineteenth century " with more reality than any of his contempo- raries . " Although this " by no means ...
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... Richard's Almanack that Franklin had become " the counselor and household friend to almost every family in America . " No matter that Franklin's proverbs " were all about getting money and saving it , " they were " suited to the ...
... Richard's Almanack that Franklin had become " the counselor and household friend to almost every family in America . " No matter that Franklin's proverbs " were all about getting money and saving it , " they were " suited to the ...
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... Richard Saunders , " also known as " Poor Richard , " the almanac maker . Sometimes he wrote in the London newspapers as " An American " or " A New England - Man . " But other times he wrote as " A Briton " or " A Lon- don Manufacturer ...
... Richard Saunders , " also known as " Poor Richard , " the almanac maker . Sometimes he wrote in the London newspapers as " An American " or " A New England - Man . " But other times he wrote as " A Briton " or " A Lon- don Manufacturer ...
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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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