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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... wanted to know the way to wealth read Franklin . He has stood for industry , frugality , thrift , and every materialistic virtue that Americans have valued . During the nineteenth century Franklin became not only an icon that ordinary ...
... wanted to know the way to wealth read Franklin . He has stood for industry , frugality , thrift , and every materialistic virtue that Americans have valued . During the nineteenth century Franklin became not only an icon that ordinary ...
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... wanted to say about Gatsby's desire to realize the so - called American dream . No matter that this dream eluded Gatsby , as Fitzgerald thought it eluded all Americans . As long as Americans keep trying to grasp that " green light , the ...
... wanted to say about Gatsby's desire to realize the so - called American dream . No matter that this dream eluded Gatsby , as Fitzgerald thought it eluded all Americans . As long as Americans keep trying to grasp that " green light , the ...
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... wanted us to see . Only at moments in the early 1770s and at the end of his life do we sense that the world was spinning out of his grasp . Beyond the restrained and reserved character of his personal writ- ings is the remarkable ...
... wanted us to see . Only at moments in the early 1770s and at the end of his life do we sense that the world was spinning out of his grasp . Beyond the restrained and reserved character of his personal writ- ings is the remarkable ...
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... wanted to remember . He even befriended the apprentices of booksellers in order to gain access to more books . One of these apprentices allowed him secretly to borrow his master's books to read after work . " Often , " Franklin recalled ...
... wanted to remember . He even befriended the apprentices of booksellers in order to gain access to more books . One of these apprentices allowed him secretly to borrow his master's books to read after work . " Often , " Franklin recalled ...
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... Philadelphia . He was extremely bright and naturally affable , and his future as an artisan looked very promising . PATRONAGE Although Franklin certainly wanted to make something of himself { 24 } THE AMERICANIZATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
... Philadelphia . He was extremely bright and naturally affable , and his future as an artisan looked very promising . PATRONAGE Although Franklin certainly wanted to make something of himself { 24 } THE AMERICANIZATION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
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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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