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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... 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 journal he has already had a busy, hardworking childhood ...
... 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 journal he has already had a busy, hardworking childhood ...
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... raised his hackles . He gave a more extended criticism of it and of all hereditary honors in a letter to his daughter , included in the last section of this book . “ Our Constitution " is the Articles of Confederation , adopted in 1781 ...
... raised his hackles . He gave a more extended criticism of it and of all hereditary honors in a letter to his daughter , included in the last section of this book . “ Our Constitution " is the Articles of Confederation , adopted in 1781 ...
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... raising and lowering yards ] and whipped , for making an extravagant use of flour in the puddings , and for several other misdemeanors . It has been perfectly calm all this day , and very hot . I was determined to wash myself in the sea ...
... raising and lowering yards ] and whipped , for making an extravagant use of flour in the puddings , and for several other misdemeanors . It has been perfectly calm all this day , and very hot . I was determined to wash myself in the sea ...
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... raising their Children , are often not able to pay the Expense , so that the Prisons of Paris are crowded with wretched Fathers and Mothers con- fined [ as debtors ] pour mois de Nourice [ during the months of their children being wet ...
... raising their Children , are often not able to pay the Expense , so that the Prisons of Paris are crowded with wretched Fathers and Mothers con- fined [ as debtors ] pour mois de Nourice [ during the months of their children being wet ...
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... raise a Dispute upon . Rather than fail , criticise even his Grammar . 3. If another should be saying an indisputably good Thing ; either give no Attention to it ; or interrupt him ; or draw away the Attention of others ; or , if you ...
... raise a Dispute upon . Rather than fail , criticise even his Grammar . 3. If another should be saying an indisputably good Thing ; either give no Attention to it ; or interrupt him ; or draw away the Attention of others ; or , if you ...
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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