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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Gordon S. Wood. THE AMERICANIZATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GORDON S. WOOD PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (
Gordon S. Wood. THE AMERICANIZATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GORDON S. WOOD PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (
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... published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press , a member of Penguin Group ( USA ) Inc. 2004 Published in Penguin Books 2005 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 Copyright © Gordon Wood , 2004 All rights reserved Illustration credits appear ...
... published in the United States of America by The Penguin Press , a member of Penguin Group ( USA ) Inc. 2004 Published in Penguin Books 2005 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 Copyright © Gordon Wood , 2004 All rights reserved Illustration credits appear ...
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... published in the magnificent letterpress edition of Yale University Press . I am grateful too to my agent , Andrew Wylie , for all his support . My thanks also to Sophie Fels at The Penguin Press for her considerable and always cheerful ...
... published in the magnificent letterpress edition of Yale University Press . I am grateful too to my agent , Andrew Wylie , for all his support . My thanks also to Sophie Fels at The Penguin Press for her considerable and always cheerful ...
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... published in a modern letterpress edition , we still do not fully know the man . THE MAN OF MANY MASKS Franklin is not an easy man to get to know . Although he wrote more pieces about more things than any of the other Founders ...
... published in a modern letterpress edition , we still do not fully know the man . THE MAN OF MANY MASKS Franklin is not an easy man to get to know . Although he wrote more pieces about more things than any of the other Founders ...
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... published in 1690 , had been closed down by the Massachusetts government after only one issue . The second , the Boston News - Letter , was founded in 1704 ; it became the first continuously published newspaper not only in Boston but in ...
... published in 1690 , had been closed down by the Massachusetts government after only one issue . The second , the Boston News - Letter , was founded in 1704 ; it became the first continuously published newspaper not only in Boston but in ...
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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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