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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... important ways from the Franklin of our inherited com- mon understanding . First of all , the book attempts to penetrate beneath the many images and representations of Franklin that have accumulated over the past two hundred years and ...
... important ways from the Franklin of our inherited com- mon understanding . First of all , the book attempts to penetrate beneath the many images and representations of Franklin that have accumulated over the past two hundred years and ...
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... important figure in my book The Radicalism of the American Revolution , and the several paragraphs devoted to him there anticipate some of what is in this study . Indeed , what hap- pened to Franklin and Franklin's image between the ...
... important figure in my book The Radicalism of the American Revolution , and the several paragraphs devoted to him there anticipate some of what is in this study . Indeed , what hap- pened to Franklin and Franklin's image between the ...
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... important as they were, or even his vast political services, would have given him all the fame which he acquired.” Instead, it was as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack that Franklin had become “the counselor and household friend to ...
... important as they were, or even his vast political services, would have given him all the fame which he acquired.” Instead, it was as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack that Franklin had become “the counselor and household friend to ...
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... important mythical fig- ure used to assimilate foreigners to American values . Franklin came to represent the America of innovation and enterprise , of moneymaking and getting ahead . He was everything that immigrants thought America ...
... important mythical fig- ure used to assimilate foreigners to American values . Franklin came to represent the America of innovation and enterprise , of moneymaking and getting ahead . He was everything that immigrants thought America ...
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... important as they were , or even his vast political services , would have given him all the fame which he acquired . " Instead , it was as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack that Franklin had become " the counselor and household ...
... important as they were , or even his vast political services , would have given him all the fame which he acquired . " Instead , it was as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack that Franklin had become " the counselor and household ...
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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