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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... middling Ameri- cans 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 tur- bulent capitalism ...
... middling Ameri- cans 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 tur- bulent capitalism ...
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... middling and materialistic America , he became the Founder whom many critics most liked to mock . As John Keats pointed out as early as 1818 , there was nothing sub- lime about Franklin , or about Americans in general , for that matter ...
... middling and materialistic America , he became the Founder whom many critics most liked to mock . As John Keats pointed out as early as 1818 , there was nothing sub- lime about Franklin , or about Americans in general , for that matter ...
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... middling sorts . " These early papers were labeled " published by authority . " Remain- ing on the good side of government was not only wise politically , it was wise economically . Most colonial printers in the eighteenth century could ...
... middling sorts . " These early papers were labeled " published by authority . " Remain- ing on the good side of government was not only wise politically , it was wise economically . Most colonial printers in the eighteenth century could ...
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... middling sorts who had intellectual and literary ambitions similar to his . He was unusu- ally amiable , told a good story , and worked at getting along with people . He tells us that very early on he developed " the Habit of expressing ...
... middling sorts who had intellectual and literary ambitions similar to his . He was unusu- ally amiable , told a good story , and worked at getting along with people . He tells us that very early on he developed " the Habit of expressing ...
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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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