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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... letter addressed to his pretty stuffy grown son . The Autobiogra- phy is the man's re - creation of himself , undertaken when he was sixty - five years old , and written with a practiced literary skill in a paternal voice . It is worth ...
... letter addressed to his pretty stuffy grown son . The Autobiogra- phy is the man's re - creation of himself , undertaken when he was sixty - five years old , and written with a practiced literary skill in a paternal voice . It is worth ...
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... letters . From the sparse evidence it appears that they were happy together . It tells us something about both of them that he had an illegitimate son , William , born shortly before their marriage — he never revealed who the mother was ...
... letters . From the sparse evidence it appears that they were happy together . It tells us something about both of them that he had an illegitimate son , William , born shortly before their marriage — he never revealed who the mother was ...
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... letter : " When will it be in your power to cume home ? How I long to see you but I wold not say one word that wold ... letters tell us . They are all much the same . Franklin knew that Deborah was interested in the homely , household ...
... letter : " When will it be in your power to cume home ? How I long to see you but I wold not say one word that wold ... letters tell us . They are all much the same . Franklin knew that Deborah was interested in the homely , household ...
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... letter to his English friend , ranging over many subjects , we learn some- thing about how , at age seventy - nine , he looks at the world and its ways . A word about the topics that engaged him . The references to the shock- ing ...
... letter to his English friend , ranging over many subjects , we learn some- thing about how , at age seventy - nine , he looks at the world and its ways . A word about the topics that engaged him . The references to the shock- ing ...
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... letter not so much for the details it gives about all these things but for the impression it conveys of the man who wrote it . Journal of a Voyage , 1726 Friday , July 22 , 1726 Yesterday in the afternoon we left London , and came to an ...
... letter not so much for the details it gives about all these things but for the impression it conveys of the man who wrote it . Journal of a Voyage , 1726 Friday , July 22 , 1726 Yesterday in the afternoon we left London , and came to an ...
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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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