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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... called Franklin “the most modern, the most American, of his contemporaries,” and many other commentators have agreed.4 He seems to have embodied much of what most Americans have valued throughout their history. His “homely aphorisms and ...
... called Franklin “the most modern, the most American, of his contemporaries,” and many other commentators have agreed.4 He seems to have embodied much of what most Americans have valued throughout their history. His “homely aphorisms and ...
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... called Franklin " the most modern , the most American , of his contemporaries , " and many other commentators have agreed . He seems to have embodied much of what most Americans have valued throughout their history . His " homely ...
... called Franklin " the most modern , the most American , of his contemporaries , " and many other commentators have agreed . He seems to have embodied much of what most Americans have valued throughout their history . His " homely ...
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... called American dream . No matter that this dream eluded Gatsby , as Fitzgerald thought it eluded all Americans . As long as Americans keep trying to grasp that " green light , the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us ...
... called American dream . No matter that this dream eluded Gatsby , as Fitzgerald thought it eluded all Americans . As long as Americans keep trying to grasp that " green light , the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us ...
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... called " the ruling passion of the noblest minds . " But Franklin was different . He alone already had the position and the fame that the others only yearned for . He was already known all over Britain and the rest of Europe . Because ...
... called " the ruling passion of the noblest minds . " But Franklin was different . He alone already had the position and the fame that the others only yearned for . He was already known all over Britain and the rest of Europe . Because ...
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... called on Franklin , who was working for Keimer . The governor invited Franklin out for a drink in a local tavern and offered to help establish him as an inde- pendent printer if his father would supply the capital . When his father ...
... called on Franklin , who was working for Keimer . The governor invited Franklin out for a drink in a local tavern and offered to help establish him as an inde- pendent printer if his father would supply the capital . When his father ...
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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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