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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... society , and a belated con- vert to the revolutionary cause that he served with such spectacular distinction . With great psychological acuity and unrivaled erudition , Wood has rescued the real Franklin from the crushing heap of ...
... society , and a belated con- vert to the revolutionary cause that he served with such spectacular distinction . With great psychological acuity and unrivaled erudition , Wood has rescued the real Franklin from the crushing heap of ...
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... society by playing their parts . Both were believers in the power of a few reasonable men , men like themselves , to run affairs . Both regarded the common people with a cer- tain patronizing amusement , unless , of course , they rioted ...
... society by playing their parts . Both were believers in the power of a few reasonable men , men like themselves , to run affairs . Both regarded the common people with a cer- tain patronizing amusement , unless , of course , they rioted ...
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... Society and had received honorary degrees from universities in America and Britain , including St. Andrews and Oxford . Philosophers and scientists from all over Europe consulted him on everything from how to build a fireplace to why ...
... Society and had received honorary degrees from universities in America and Britain , including St. Andrews and Oxford . Philosophers and scientists from all over Europe consulted him on everything from how to build a fireplace to why ...
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... society than anyone had anticipated , the need for a Founder who could represent the age's new egalitarian and commercial forces became ever more pressing . Only with the publication of his Autobiography in 1794 did the idea of Franklin ...
... society than anyone had anticipated , the need for a Founder who could represent the age's new egalitarian and commercial forces became ever more pressing . Only with the publication of his Autobiography in 1794 did the idea of Franklin ...
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... society and civic - minded by necessity . Not for him the disastrous assertions of antisocial autonomy and the outspoken sincerity of Molière's character Alceste in Le Misanthrope . Like many others of his day , Franklin pre- ferred the ...
... society and civic - minded by necessity . Not for him the disastrous assertions of antisocial autonomy and the outspoken sincerity of Molière's character Alceste in Le Misanthrope . Like many others of his day , Franklin pre- ferred the ...
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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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