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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 55
Seite xi
... powers . Apart from a tantalizing glimpse of him as he saw himself at twenty in a unique youthful journal , the earliest single item in this reader is a letter to his parents when he was already thirty - two . The choice is partly a ...
... powers . Apart from a tantalizing glimpse of him as he saw himself at twenty in a unique youthful journal , the earliest single item in this reader is a letter to his parents when he was already thirty - two . The choice is partly a ...
Seite 2
... power . But he never forgave William for clinging to the office and taking the British side when Americans repudiated royal authority and royal gover- nors in the Revolution . William Temple , the grandson , took the American side and ...
... power . But he never forgave William for clinging to the office and taking the British side when Americans repudiated royal authority and royal gover- nors in the Revolution . William Temple , the grandson , took the American side and ...
Seite 3
... power to cume home ? How I long to see you but I wold not say one word that wold give you one moments trubel . " Franklin never com- plained of her failure to learn spelling or grammar , never condescended to her . The relationship ...
... power to cume home ? How I long to see you but I wold not say one word that wold give you one moments trubel . " Franklin never com- plained of her failure to learn spelling or grammar , never condescended to her . The relationship ...
Seite 22
... would be more Reason in being jealous of giving it Powers . But its Members are chosen annually , cannot be chosen more than three Years successively , nor more than three Years in seven , and any of them may be recall'd at 22 ] THE MAN.
... would be more Reason in being jealous of giving it Powers . But its Members are chosen annually , cannot be chosen more than three Years successively , nor more than three Years in seven , and any of them may be recall'd at 22 ] THE MAN.
Seite 23
... Powers must be sufficient , or their Duties cannot be performed.— They have no profitable Appointments , but a mere Payment of daily Wages , such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences , so that having no Chance for great Places ...
... Powers must be sufficient , or their Duties cannot be performed.— They have no profitable Appointments , but a mere Payment of daily Wages , such as are scarcely equivalent to their Expences , so that having no Chance for great Places ...
Inhalt
1 | |
Part II Nature observed | 67 |
Part III A continental vision | 141 |
Part IV War peace and humanity | 219 |
Chronology | 289 |
Credits | 291 |
Index | 297 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Acts of Parliament Adams Advantage Albany Congress America Articles of Confederation Assembly become Benjamin Franklin Boat Body Britain British Business called Children chimney Clouds cold Collinson Colonies Commerce common conductors Congress continued Country dear Debt Earth electric Fluid Emma Thompson empire England English Europe excerpted Expence Experiment Family Fire France French Friend give Globe Government Grand Council Honour House human increase Indians Inhabitants Island Jane Mecom Jonathan Shipley Julien-David Le Roy kind King Labour Land Laws letter lightning live London Lord Madame Helvétius Manufactures means Merchants Money Nation natural never Number Observations occasion Opinion Parliament Peace Pennsylvania perhaps Persons Peter Collinson Philadelphia Power present Property proposed Quantity Ships slaves Society soon Stamp Act Subsistence Sugar Taxes thing thought thro tion Trade treaty Union wanted Water wind