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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... nature , as of a young people gathering its strength and feeling its broadening power . " He has represented everything Americans like about themselves — their levelheadedness , common sense , pragmatism , ingenuity , and get - up - and ...
... nature , as of a young people gathering its strength and feeling its broadening power . " He has represented everything Americans like about themselves — their levelheadedness , common sense , pragmatism , ingenuity , and get - up - and ...
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... 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 , it is not easy to under- stand why Franklin took up the Revolutionary cause at all ...
... 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 , it is not easy to under- stand why Franklin took up the Revolutionary cause at all ...
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... nature . He had a remarkable capacity to see all sides of human behavior and to appreciate other points of view . He loved turn- ing conventional wisdom on its head , as , for example , when he argued for the virtue and usefulness of ...
... nature . He had a remarkable capacity to see all sides of human behavior and to appreciate other points of view . He loved turn- ing conventional wisdom on its head , as , for example , when he argued for the virtue and usefulness of ...
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... natural increase of England's population . All these people made for congestion and confusion in the city's labyrinth of narrow streets and dark alleys , which contrasted sharply with the neatly rectangular layout of colonial ...
... natural increase of England's population . All these people made for congestion and confusion in the city's labyrinth of narrow streets and dark alleys , which contrasted sharply with the neatly rectangular layout of colonial ...
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... nature of power in that severely hierarchical world , he had no recourse but to seek work as a printer in the great metropolis . Despite the complexity of London he seems to have made his way about with remarkable ease . He naturally ...
... nature of power in that severely hierarchical world , he had no recourse but to seek work as a printer in the great metropolis . Despite the complexity of London he seems to have made his way about with remarkable ease . He naturally ...
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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