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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... believe was the driving force in Franklin's public career. Sometime in his forties he decided on a life of public service. At the same time, I believe, he decided that the public he should serve was more than his neighborhood or city or ...
... believe was the driving force in Franklin's public career. Sometime in his forties he decided on a life of public service. At the same time, I believe, he decided that the public he should serve was more than his neighborhood or city or ...
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... believe , that vision guided his public career . Part III of the reader is taken up with his campaign to persuade the existing leaders of the empire to recognize Americans for what they were and what they would be . By 1776 the ...
... believe , that vision guided his public career . Part III of the reader is taken up with his campaign to persuade the existing leaders of the empire to recognize Americans for what they were and what they would be . By 1776 the ...
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... believe it is impossible for a man, though he has all the cunning of a devil, to live and die a villain, and yet conceal it so well as to carry the name of an honest fellow to the grave with him, but some one by some accident or other ...
... believe it is impossible for a man, though he has all the cunning of a devil, to live and die a villain, and yet conceal it so well as to carry the name of an honest fellow to the grave with him, but some one by some accident or other ...
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... believe that he will suffer the daily Waste of Millions of Minds ready made that now exist , and put himself to the continual Trouble of making new ones . Thus finding myself to exist in the World , I believe I shall in some Shape or ...
... believe that he will suffer the daily Waste of Millions of Minds ready made that now exist , and put himself to the continual Trouble of making new ones . Thus finding myself to exist in the World , I believe I shall in some Shape or ...
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... that I understand French better by the help of my spectacles.— Adieu , my dear Friend , and believe me ever . Yours very affectionately B. Franklin 2 Friendship and flirtation. M ost of Franklin's correspondence was [ 24 ] THE MA N.
... that I understand French better by the help of my spectacles.— Adieu , my dear Friend , and believe me ever . Yours very affectionately B. Franklin 2 Friendship and flirtation. M ost of Franklin's correspondence was [ 24 ] THE MA N.
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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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