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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... sense of the remarkable degree of hostility Franklin faced in the last years of his life from members of Congress and other influential Ameri- cans . Even after his death in 1790 the hostility continued , especially as Franklin emerged ...
... sense of the remarkable degree of hostility Franklin faced in the last years of his life from members of Congress and other influential Ameri- cans . Even after his death in 1790 the hostility continued , especially as Franklin emerged ...
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... sense , pragmatism , ingenuity , and get - up - and- go . Because of his inventions of the lightning rod , bifocals , the Franklin stove , and other useful instruments , he has been identified with the hap- piness and prosperity of ...
... sense , pragmatism , ingenuity , and get - up - and- go . Because of his inventions of the lightning rod , bifocals , the Franklin stove , and other useful instruments , he has been identified with the hap- piness and prosperity of ...
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... sense of irony as a writer . How seriously must we take Franklin ? Is young Franklin , the character of the first two sections of the Autobiography , really the same person as the older Franklin , the author ? Do we really know Franklin ...
... sense of irony as a writer . How seriously must we take Franklin ? Is young Franklin , the character of the first two sections of the Autobiography , really the same person as the older Franklin , the author ? Do we really know Franklin ...
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... sense more deeply committed to the British Empire than they were . More important , unlike these other Revolutionary leaders , Franklin already had an established reputation ; indeed , prior to the Revolution he was already world ...
... sense more deeply committed to the British Empire than they were . More important , unlike these other Revolutionary leaders , Franklin already had an established reputation ; indeed , prior to the Revolution he was already world ...
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... sense in Franklin the presence of calculated restraint — a restraint perhaps bred by his spectacular rise and the ... sense that he was always in control and was showing us only what he wanted us to see . Only at moments in the early ...
... sense in Franklin the presence of calculated restraint — a restraint perhaps bred by his spectacular rise and the ... sense that he was always in control and was showing us only what he wanted us to see . Only at moments in the early ...
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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