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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... wanted it to be . for- Indeed he seldom got his way in the public measures he helped to bring about . He was a great proponent of the federal union that now guides us , but not its architect — he would have preferred something a little ...
... wanted it to be . for- Indeed he seldom got his way in the public measures he helped to bring about . He was a great proponent of the federal union that now guides us , but not its architect — he would have preferred something a little ...
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... wanted rather than what he got , what his America could have been rather than what it became , but also to show his satisfaction with what he and his fellow founders did , however short it fell from what he would have wished . In ...
... wanted rather than what he got , what his America could have been rather than what it became , but also to show his satisfaction with what he and his fellow founders did , however short it fell from what he would have wished . In ...
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... wanted them to think about him . Some years before he wrote it , he said in one of the almanacs he published in Philadelphia , " Let all men know thee , but no man know thee thoroughly . ” I think he followed that injunction in the ...
... wanted them to think about him . Some years before he wrote it , he said in one of the almanacs he published in Philadelphia , " Let all men know thee , but no man know thee thoroughly . ” I think he followed that injunction in the ...
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... wanted to spend needless days aboard a wind-bound ship. So the captain of Franklin's ship inched along the coast, waiting for a fair wind, and allowed his passengers to go ashore at several ports along the way. Thus Franklin's ''Albion ...
... wanted to spend needless days aboard a wind-bound ship. So the captain of Franklin's ship inched along the coast, waiting for a fair wind, and allowed his passengers to go ashore at several ports along the way. Thus Franklin's ''Albion ...
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... wanted to regard the Prospects . Finding this Change trou- blesome and not always sufficiently ready , I had the Glasses cut , and half of each kind associated in the same Circle , thus for landing By this means , as I wear my ...
... wanted to regard the Prospects . Finding this Change trou- blesome and not always sufficiently ready , I had the Glasses cut , and half of each kind associated in the same Circle , thus for landing By this means , as I wear my ...
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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