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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... Empire and sought to become its architect , why he began writing his Autobiography when he did , and why he belatedly joined the American Revolution , and joined it with a vengeance . It seeks to clarify the personal meaning the ...
... Empire and sought to become its architect , why he began writing his Autobiography when he did , and why he belatedly joined the American Revolution , and joined it with a vengeance . It seeks to clarify the personal meaning the ...
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... Empire and the inde- pendence of the United States - no one could have identified Franklin with a radical cause . Certainly , no one could have predicted that he would become one of the leaders of the American Revolution . In 1760 there ...
... Empire and the inde- pendence of the United States - no one could have identified Franklin with a radical cause . Certainly , no one could have predicted that he would become one of the leaders of the American Revolution . In 1760 there ...
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... Empire . On the face of it , it is not easy to under- stand why Franklin took up the Revolutionary cause at all . First of all , Franklin , unlike the other Founders , was not a young man . He was seventy in 1776 — not the age that one ...
... Empire . On the face of it , it is not easy to under- stand why Franklin took up the Revolutionary cause at all . First of all , Franklin , unlike the other Founders , was not a young man . He was seventy in 1776 — not the age that one ...
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... Empire and join the American cause . How he became estranged from that empire and became , almost overnight , a fiery revo- lutionary is an important part of the story of his Americanization . In many respects Franklin in 1776 emerged ...
... Empire and join the American cause . How he became estranged from that empire and became , almost overnight , a fiery revo- lutionary is an important part of the story of his Americanization . In many respects Franklin in 1776 emerged ...
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... , a year after he had arrived in Philadelphia , Franklin , with a friend , James Ralph , was on his way to the metropolitan center of the British Empire . LONDON , 1724-1726 London , with a population of over BECOMING A GENTLEMAN { 27 }
... , a year after he had arrived in Philadelphia , Franklin , with a friend , James Ralph , was on his way to the metropolitan center of the British Empire . LONDON , 1724-1726 London , with a population of over BECOMING A GENTLEMAN { 27 }
Contenido
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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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