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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... seemed to know his writings as well as they knew the Bible . It is not surprising that the book Davy Crockett had with him when he died at the Alamo was not the Bible but Franklin's Autobiography . " DEBUNKING FRANKLIN So overwhelming ...
... seemed to know his writings as well as they knew the Bible . It is not surprising that the book Davy Crockett had with him when he died at the Alamo was not the Bible but Franklin's Autobiography . " DEBUNKING FRANKLIN So overwhelming ...
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... seemed human enough . Indeed , it was his Poor Richard ordinariness that made him vulnerable to criti- cism . As William Dean Howells noted , Franklin came down to the end of the nineteenth century " with more reality than any of his ...
... seemed human enough . Indeed , it was his Poor Richard ordinariness that made him vulnerable to criti- cism . As William Dean Howells noted , Franklin came down to the end of the nineteenth century " with more reality than any of his ...
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... seemed to be a writer after the young Franklin's own hard - to - be - governed heart . Franklin later repudiated his Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity , burn- ing all but one of the copies still in his possession . He came to ...
... seemed to be a writer after the young Franklin's own hard - to - be - governed heart . Franklin later repudiated his Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity , burn- ing all but one of the copies still in his possession . He came to ...
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Contenido
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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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