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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... Thomas Jefferson has democratic credentials , he is much too aristocratic and reserved for most people to relate to ; besides , he was a slaveholder who failed to free most of his slaves . John Adams seems human enough , but he is too ...
... Thomas Jefferson has democratic credentials , he is much too aristocratic and reserved for most people to relate to ; besides , he was a slaveholder who failed to free most of his slaves . John Adams seems human enough , but he is too ...
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... Thomas Jefferson has often been identified with Amer- ica , and thus he too has come in for some hard knocks , especially over the past generation , mostly for his hypocrisy , his ideological rigidity , and his unwillingness to free his ...
... Thomas Jefferson has often been identified with Amer- ica , and thus he too has come in for some hard knocks , especially over the past generation , mostly for his hypocrisy , his ideological rigidity , and his unwillingness to free his ...
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... Thomas Hutchinson . Both Franklin and Hutchinson were good Enlightenment figures - literate , reasonable men , with a deep dis- like of religious enthusiasm . Both were imperial officials , dedicated to the British Empire . They had in ...
... Thomas Hutchinson . Both Franklin and Hutchinson were good Enlightenment figures - literate , reasonable men , with a deep dis- like of religious enthusiasm . Both were imperial officials , dedicated to the British Empire . They had in ...
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... Thomas Paine , had not much more for- mal schooling than Franklin . Apprenticeship in a trade or skill was still the principal means by which most young men prepared for the world . Franklin's father chose that route of apprenticeship ...
... Thomas Paine , had not much more for- mal schooling than Franklin . Apprenticeship in a trade or skill was still the principal means by which most young men prepared for the world . Franklin's father chose that route of apprenticeship ...
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... Thomas Denham , a Quaker merchant , befriended him , gave him money at a crucial moment , and brought him into his business . Even Franklin's later enemy William Allen , who was Philadelphia's richest man , helped Franklin at various ...
... Thomas Denham , a Quaker merchant , befriended him , gave him money at a crucial moment , and brought him into his business . Even Franklin's later enemy William Allen , who was Philadelphia's richest man , helped Franklin at various ...
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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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