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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... thing, then Franklin exemplifies it. In 1888 William Dean Howells called Franklin “the most modern, the most American, of his contemporaries,” and many other commentators have agreed.4 He seems to have embodied much of what most ...
... thing, then Franklin exemplifies it. In 1888 William Dean Howells called Franklin “the most modern, the most American, of his contemporaries,” and many other commentators have agreed.4 He seems to have embodied much of what most ...
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... thing , then Franklin exemplifies it . In 1888 William Dean Howells called Franklin " the most modern , the most American , of his contemporaries , " and many other commentators have agreed . He seems to have embodied much of what most ...
... thing , then Franklin exemplifies it . In 1888 William Dean Howells called Franklin " the most modern , the most American , of his contemporaries , " and many other commentators have agreed . He seems to have embodied much of what most ...
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... things that turned Franklin into a mid- dling folk hero became sources of genteel contempt and ridicule . Those who believed that Franklin's Autobiography was supposed " to promote good morals , especially among the uneducated class of ...
... things that turned Franklin into a mid- dling folk hero became sources of genteel contempt and ridicule . Those who believed that Franklin's Autobiography was supposed " to promote good morals , especially among the uneducated class of ...
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... things than any of the other Founders , Franklin is never very revealing of himself . He always seems to be holding some- thing back - he is reticent , detached , not wholly committed . We sense in Franklin the presence of calculated ...
... things than any of the other Founders , Franklin is never very revealing of himself . He always seems to be holding some- thing back - he is reticent , detached , not wholly committed . We sense in Franklin the presence of calculated ...
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... thing it is to be a reasonable Creature , " he concluded , " since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do . " 37 None of the Founders was more conscious of the difference between appearance and ...
... thing it is to be a reasonable Creature , " he concluded , " since it enables one to find or make a Reason for every thing one has a mind to do . " 37 None of the Founders was more conscious of the difference between appearance 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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