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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... 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 — and that Deborah ungrudgingly [ 1 ] Part I The man.
... 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 — and that Deborah ungrudgingly [ 1 ] Part I The man.
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... 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 replaced his ...
... 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 replaced his ...
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... never com- plained of her failure to learn spelling or grammar , never condescended to her . The relationship , whether they were together or apart , was a trusting , affectionate one . That is about all the letters tell us . They are ...
... never com- plained of her failure to learn spelling or grammar , never condescended to her . The relationship , whether they were together or apart , was a trusting , affectionate one . That is about all the letters tell us . They are ...
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... never lost his ordinary character, even when his exploits raised him to a fame shared by no other American in the intellectual world of his time, and by no other American, Washington excepted, in the political world. At the time of the ...
... never lost his ordinary character, even when his exploits raised him to a fame shared by no other American in the intellectual world of his time, and by no other American, Washington excepted, in the political world. At the time of the ...
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... never the nearer, we must have sat in the boat, as the mud was too deep for us to walk ashore through it, being up to our necks. At last we bethought ourselves of some means of escaping, and two of us stripped and got out, and thereby ...
... never the nearer, we must have sat in the boat, as the mud was too deep for us to walk ashore through it, being up to our necks. At last we bethought ourselves of some means of escaping, and two of us stripped and got out, and thereby ...
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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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