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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... early days of the Republic as anyone currently working .... This is the most dramatic of the recent Franklin books . " -The New York Times Book Review " Dazzling ... An elegant tour de force , beautifully written and tightly crafted ...
... early days of the Republic as anyone currently working .... This is the most dramatic of the recent Franklin books . " -The New York Times Book Review " Dazzling ... An elegant tour de force , beautifully written and tightly crafted ...
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... early nineteenth century , began re - creating that image and making him a folk hero . Building on his seminal work , The Radicalism of the American Revolution , he convincingly explains Franklin's progress from aspiring tradesman to ...
... early nineteenth century , began re - creating that image and making him a folk hero . Building on his seminal work , The Radicalism of the American Revolution , he convincingly explains Franklin's progress from aspiring tradesman to ...
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Gordon S. Wood. Americans in the early decades of the nineteenth century. This early-nineteenth-century image of Franklin was not the image of Franklin known to people in his own lifetime; it was a product of the turbulent capitalism of ...
Gordon S. Wood. Americans in the early decades of the nineteenth century. This early-nineteenth-century image of Franklin was not the image of Franklin known to people in his own lifetime; it was a product of the turbulent capitalism of ...
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... early decades of the nineteenth century . This early - nineteenth - century image of Franklin was not the image of Franklin known to people in his own lifetime ; it was a product of the tur- bulent capitalism of the age of Jackson , the ...
... early decades of the nineteenth century . This early - nineteenth - century image of Franklin was not the image of Franklin known to people in his own lifetime ; it was a product of the tur- bulent capitalism of the age of Jackson , the ...
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... early 1970s . I let my thoughts about this extraordinary character stew for a decade . Then in 1983 the late William B. Cohen , chair of the Department of History of Indiana University , invited me to present a lecture on Franklin as ...
... early 1970s . I let my thoughts about this extraordinary character stew for a decade . Then in 1983 the late William B. Cohen , chair of the Department of History of Indiana University , invited me to present a lecture on Franklin as ...
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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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