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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... least concerned with the getting of money . Despite achiev- ing fame as a scientist , he never believed that science was as important as public service . Indeed , at the age of forty - two , he retired from business and devoted the ...
... least concerned with the getting of money . Despite achiev- ing fame as a scientist , he never believed that science was as important as public service . Indeed , at the age of forty - two , he retired from business and devoted the ...
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... least likely of revolutionaries . Cer- tainly his participation in the Revolution was not natural or inevitable ; indeed , Franklin came very close to remaining , as his son did , a loyal member of the British Empire . On the face of it ...
... least likely of revolutionaries . Cer- tainly his participation in the Revolution was not natural or inevitable ; indeed , Franklin came very close to remaining , as his son did , a loyal member of the British Empire . On the face of it ...
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... least one could appear to be so . Although he wrote against disguise and dissimulation and asked , " Who was ever cunning enough to conceal his being so ? " we neverthe- less know that he was the master of camouflage and concealment ...
... least one could appear to be so . Although he wrote against disguise and dissimulation and asked , " Who was ever cunning enough to conceal his being so ? " we neverthe- less know that he was the master of camouflage and concealment ...
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... least half the population of Philadelphia during the early and middle decades of the eighteenth century was composed of indentured servants . Since the Philadelphia that Franklin moved to was still a very small town , knit together by ...
... least half the population of Philadelphia during the early and middle decades of the eighteenth century was composed of indentured servants . Since the Philadelphia that Franklin moved to was still a very small town , knit together by ...
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Contenido
1 | |
17 | |
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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