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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... later fasten upon Franklin. In his famous work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), the great German sociologist Max Weber found Franklin to be a perfect exemplar of the modern capitalistic spirit. No one, wrote ...
... later fasten upon Franklin. In his famous work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), the great German sociologist Max Weber found Franklin to be a perfect exemplar of the modern capitalistic spirit. No one, wrote ...
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... later fasten upon Franklin . In his famous work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capital- ism ( 1905 ) , the great German sociologist Max Weber found Franklin to be a perfect exemplar of the modern capitalistic spirit . No one ...
... later fasten upon Franklin . In his famous work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capital- ism ( 1905 ) , the great German sociologist Max Weber found Franklin to be a perfect exemplar of the modern capitalistic spirit . No one ...
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... later , the historic Franklin of the eighteenth century remains buried beneath an accumulation of images . Consequently , despite hundreds of biographies and studies of Franklin and over three dozen volumes of his papers magnificently ...
... later , the historic Franklin of the eighteenth century remains buried beneath an accumulation of images . Consequently , despite hundreds of biographies and studies of Franklin and over three dozen volumes of his papers magnificently ...
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... later , so too do we continue to honor Franklin as the Founder who best exemplifies our present - day demo- cratic capitalist society . As the symbol of an American land of opportu- nity where one works hard to get ahead , Franklin ...
... later , so too do we continue to honor Franklin as the Founder who best exemplifies our present - day demo- cratic capitalist society . As the symbol of an American land of opportu- nity where one works hard to get ahead , Franklin ...
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... later recalled in his Autobiography , was " extremely ambitious " to become a " tolerable English Writer . " Although literacy was relatively high in New England at this time - perhaps 75 percent of males in Boston could read and write ...
... later recalled in his Autobiography , was " extremely ambitious " to become a " tolerable English Writer . " Although literacy was relatively high in New England at this time - perhaps 75 percent of males in Boston could read and write ...
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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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