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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... printer who craved aristocratic respectability , a passionate British royalist who preferred upper - crust European society , and a belated con- vert to the revolutionary cause that he served with such spectacular distinction . With ...
... printer who craved aristocratic respectability , a passionate British royalist who preferred upper - crust European society , and a belated con- vert to the revolutionary cause that he served with such spectacular distinction . With ...
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... Printers - United States - Biography . 8. Public opinion - United States . I. Title E302.6F8W84 2004 2003063254 973.3'092 - dc22 [ B ] Printed in the United States of America Designed by Marysarah Quinn Except in the United States of ...
... Printers - United States - Biography . 8. Public opinion - United States . I. Title E302.6F8W84 2004 2003063254 973.3'092 - dc22 [ B ] Printed in the United States of America Designed by Marysarah Quinn Except in the United States of ...
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... printer who became the architect of his own fortune. He is the prototype of the self-made man, and his life is the classic American success story—the story of a man rising from the most obscure of origins to wealth and international ...
... printer who became the architect of his own fortune. He is the prototype of the self-made man, and his life is the classic American success story—the story of a man rising from the most obscure of origins to wealth and international ...
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... printer, postmaster, almanac maker, essayist, chemist, orator, tinker, statesman, humorist, philosopher, parlorman, political economist, professor of housewifery, ambassador, projector, maxim-monger, herb-doctor, wit,” anything and ...
... printer, postmaster, almanac maker, essayist, chemist, orator, tinker, statesman, humorist, philosopher, parlorman, political economist, professor of housewifery, ambassador, projector, maxim-monger, herb-doctor, wit,” anything and ...
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... printer who became the architect of his own fortune . He is the prototype of the self - made man , and his life is the classic American success story- the story of a man rising from the most obscure of origins to wealth and ...
... printer who became the architect of his own fortune . He is the prototype of the self - made man , and his life is the classic American success story- the story of a man rising from the most obscure of origins to wealth and ...
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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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