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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... wishes in order to carry out what other people wanted tells us something about him , something that will become more comprehensible as we get to know him . This was not your usual founding father, and this reader is not intended [ XII ] ...
... wishes in order to carry out what other people wanted tells us something about him , something that will become more comprehensible as we get to know him . This was not your usual founding father, and this reader is not intended [ XII ] ...
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... wish. Each will make sense by itself. But I have arranged them in a sequence, not always chronological, that I believe will exhibit the man as he developed, first as a human being, then as a deservedly re- nowned scientific thinker, and ...
... wish. Each will make sense by itself. But I have arranged them in a sequence, not always chronological, that I believe will exhibit the man as he developed, first as a human being, then as a deservedly re- nowned scientific thinker, and ...
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... wishes that " I was near aneuf to rube it with a lite hand " -this in 1770 , when he had been gone for six years . In the same letter : " When will it be in your power to cume home ? How I long to see you but I wold not say one word ...
... wishes that " I was near aneuf to rube it with a lite hand " -this in 1770 , when he had been gone for six years . In the same letter : " When will it be in your power to cume home ? How I long to see you but I wold not say one word ...
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... wish to be well spoken of, whether alive or dead, that I imagine he could not be quite exempt from that Desire, and that at least he wish'd to be thought a Wit, or he would not have given himself the Trouble of writing so good an ...
... wish to be well spoken of, whether alive or dead, that I imagine he could not be quite exempt from that Desire, and that at least he wish'd to be thought a Wit, or he would not have given himself the Trouble of writing so good an ...
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... wish Success to the new Project of assisting the Poor to keep their Children at home , because I think there is no Nurse like a Mother ( or not many ) and that if Parents did not imme- diately send their Infants out of their Sight ...
... wish Success to the new Project of assisting the Poor to keep their Children at home , because I think there is no Nurse like a Mother ( or not many ) and that if Parents did not imme- diately send their Infants out of their Sight ...
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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