Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin FranklinYale University Press, 01.01.2006 - 303 Seiten This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side—his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three hundred years after his birth, we may remember Franklin’s famous Autobiography, or his status as framer of the Declaration of Independence and the peace with Great Britain, or his experiments in electricity, or perhaps his sage advice on diligence and thrift. But historian Edmund S. Morgan invites us to meet the man himself, a sociable, good-natured, and extraordinary human being with boundless curiosity about the natural world and a vision of what America could be. Drawing on lifelong research in the vast Franklin archives, Morgan assembles both famous and lesser-known writings that offer insights into this founding father’s thinking. The book is organized around four major themes, each with an introduction. The first section includes journal excerpts and letters revealing Franklin’s personal tastes and habits. The second is devoted to Franklin’s inexhaustible intellectual energy and his scientific discoveries. The third and fourth chronicle his devotion to serving the people who became the United States both before and after the Revolution and to advancing his democratic vision of their future. Franklin’s humanity and genius have never seemed more real than in the pages of this appealing anthology. |
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... Observations Concerning the Increase Indians and Germans , 1753 To Joshua Babcock , 1772 To John Waring , 1763 The Speech of Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim , 1790 12 Join or Die 170 To James Parker , 1751 The Albany Plan of Union , 1754 The ...
... Observations Concerning the Increase Indians and Germans , 1753 To Joshua Babcock , 1772 To John Waring , 1763 The Speech of Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim , 1790 12 Join or Die 170 To James Parker , 1751 The Albany Plan of Union , 1754 The ...
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... observations that made him famous throughout the world , in his forties when he dedicated himself to a public career that would last for the rest of his life . He was seventy when he helped write the Declaration of Independence ...
... observations that made him famous throughout the world , in his forties when he dedicated himself to a public career that would last for the rest of his life . He was seventy when he helped write the Declaration of Independence ...
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... observations of what can be seen on an ocean voyage , including the way people cooped up in a ship behave toward one another . There is nothing quite like the journal in the rest of Franklin's volu- minous writings . In the next ...
... observations of what can be seen on an ocean voyage , including the way people cooped up in a ship behave toward one another . There is nothing quite like the journal in the rest of Franklin's volu- minous writings . In the next ...
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... observations on the place . ... Portsmouth is a place of very little trade in peace time ; it depending chiefly on fitting out men of war . Spithead is the place where the fleet commonly anchor , and is a very good riding place . The ...
... observations on the place . ... Portsmouth is a place of very little trade in peace time ; it depending chiefly on fitting out men of war . Spithead is the place where the fleet commonly anchor , and is a very good riding place . The ...
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... inner part was still a kind of soft jelly. Observing the weed more narrowly, I spied a very small crab crawling among it, about as big as the head of a ten-penny nail , and of a yellowish colour , like the [16] the man.
... inner part was still a kind of soft jelly. Observing the weed more narrowly, I spied a very small crab crawling among it, about as big as the head of a ten-penny nail , and of a yellowish colour , like the [16] the man.
Inhalt
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Part II Nature observed | 67 |
Part III A continental vision | 141 |
Part IV War peace and humanity | 219 |
Chronology | 289 |
Credits | 291 |
Index | 297 |
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