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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... thought - out , well - written look at how Franklin became American- ized in ways that have mattered .... A perceptive study with some deft authorial touches .... A very worthwhile book . " -The Boston Globe This One BL25 - PXO - H6ZU ...
... thought - out , well - written look at how Franklin became American- ized in ways that have mattered .... A perceptive study with some deft authorial touches .... A very worthwhile book . " -The Boston Globe This One BL25 - PXO - H6ZU ...
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... thoughts about this extraordinary character stew for a decade . Then in 1983 the late William B. Cohen , chair of the Department of History of Indiana University , invited me to present a lecture on Franklin as part of Indiana ...
... thoughts about this extraordinary character stew for a decade . Then in 1983 the late William B. Cohen , chair of the Department of History of Indiana University , invited me to present a lecture on Franklin as part of Indiana ...
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... thought America was about . America , even into our own time , as one twenty - first - century immigrant put it , has remained " a land of opportunity , and one [ where ] if you worked hard you could get ahead . " No one has stood for ...
... thought America was about . America , even into our own time , as one twenty - first - century immigrant put it , has remained " a land of opportunity , and one [ where ] if you worked hard you could get ahead . " No one has stood for ...
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... thought of so purely as an end in itself , that from the point of view of the happi- ness of , or utility to , the single individual , it appears entirely transcen- dental and absolutely irrational . " In Weber's opinion Franklin ...
... thought of so purely as an end in itself , that from the point of view of the happi- ness of , or utility to , the single individual , it appears entirely transcen- dental and absolutely irrational . " In Weber's opinion Franklin ...
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... thought it eluded all Americans . As long as Americans keep trying to grasp that " green light , the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us , " Franklin will remain a central figure in American mythology . His remark- able ...
... thought it eluded all Americans . As long as Americans keep trying to grasp that " green light , the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us , " Franklin will remain a central figure in American mythology . His remark- able ...
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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