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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... equal terms, as he met everyone, before looking at what makes him worth remembering today. Part II is devoted to a characteristic that distinguished him from most of the rest of us then and now: an intellectual curiosity that challenged ...
... equal terms, as he met everyone, before looking at what makes him worth remembering today. Part II is devoted to a characteristic that distinguished him from most of the rest of us then and now: an intellectual curiosity that challenged ...
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... equal footing , men and women , rich and poor , old and young , sophisticated and ingenuous . They were all human , and they deserved respect for their humanity , no more and no less than the respect he accorded himself . His evenhanded ...
... equal footing , men and women , rich and poor , old and young , sophisticated and ingenuous . They were all human , and they deserved respect for their humanity , no more and no less than the respect he accorded himself . His evenhanded ...
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... equal Returns , you shall see I'll keep fair Ac- counts . Equal Returns I can never make , tho ' I should write to you by every Post : For the Pleasure I receive from one of yours , is more than you can have from two of mine . The small ...
... equal Returns , you shall see I'll keep fair Ac- counts . Equal Returns I can never make , tho ' I should write to you by every Post : For the Pleasure I receive from one of yours , is more than you can have from two of mine . The small ...
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... equal to Six Months living in one Place . Perhaps I have suffered a greater Change too in my own Person then I could have done in Six Years at home . I had not been here Six Days before my Taylor and Peruquier [ wigmaker ] had transform ...
... equal to Six Months living in one Place . Perhaps I have suffered a greater Change too in my own Person then I could have done in Six Years at home . I had not been here Six Days before my Taylor and Peruquier [ wigmaker ] had transform ...
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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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