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Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies

Author : Robert Middlekauff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520921030
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies written by Robert Middlekauff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging study of the much-loved statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality—his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships—political adversaries like the Penns, John Adams, and Arthur Lee—and great disappointments—the most significant being his son, William, who sided with the British. Utilizing an abundance of archival sources, Middlekauff weaves episodes in Franklin's emotional life into key moments in colonial and Revolutionary history. The result is a highly readable narrative that illuminates how historical passions can torment even the most rational and benevolent of men.

Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies

Author : Robert Middlekauff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520921038
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies written by Robert Middlekauff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging study of the much-loved statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality—his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships—political adversaries like the Penns, John Adams, and Arthur Lee—and great disappointments—the most significant being his son, William, who sided with the British. Utilizing an abundance of archival sources, Middlekauff weaves episodes in Franklin's emotional life into key moments in colonial and Revolutionary history. The result is a highly readable narrative that illuminates how historical passions can torment even the most rational and benevolent of men.

Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies

Author : Robert Middlekauff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520213785
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies written by Robert Middlekauff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-06-08 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging study of the much-loved statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality—his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships—political adversaries like the Penns, John Adams, and Arthur Lee—and great disappointments—the most significant being his son, William, who sided with the British. Utilizing an abundance of archival sources, Middlekauff weaves episodes in Franklin's emotional life into key moments in colonial and Revolutionary history. The result is a highly readable narrative that illuminates how historical passions can torment even the most rational and benevolent of men.

Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies

Author : Robert Middlekauff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520202689
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies written by Robert Middlekauff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Franklin's relations with his political adversaries, including the Penns and John Adams, and with his estranged son, William, who remained loyal to Britain

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101200901
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun “Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.” —The Washington Post Book World From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic—and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes—comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex—and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country’s idea of itself.

Young Benjamin Franklin

Author : Nick Bunker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101872802
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Young Benjamin Franklin written by Nick Bunker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.

Franklin

Author : James Srodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1596982225
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Franklin written by James Srodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-24 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Benjamin Franklin's incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, polilician, and unlikely adventurer. From London, Paris, Philadelphia to his numerous romantic liaisons, Franklin's life becomes a panorama of dramatic history.

Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution

Author : Jonathan R. Dull
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803230338
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution written by Jonathan R. Dull and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inventor, the ladies? man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of Franklin?s part in the American Revolution:øexcept for Washington he was its most irreplaceable leader. Although aged and in ill health, Franklin served the cause with unsurpassed zeal and dedication. Jonathan R. Dull, whose decades of work on The Papers of Benjamin Franklin have given him rare insight into his subject, explains Franklin?s role in the Revolution, what prepared him for that role, and what motivated him. ø The Franklin presented here, a man immersed in the violence, danger, and suffering of the Revolution, is a tougherøperson than the Franklin of legend. Dull?s portrait captures Franklin?s confidence and self-righteousness about himself and the American cause. It shows his fanatical zeal, his hatred of King George III and George?s American supporters (particularly Franklin?s own son), and his disdain for hardship and danger. It also shows a side of Franklin that he tried to hide: his vanity, pride, and ambition. Though not as lovable and avuncular as the person of legend, this Franklin is more interesting, more complex, and in many ways more impressive.

Stealing God's Thunder

Author : Philip Dray
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812968107
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Stealing God's Thunder written by Philip Dray and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.” –Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science. But in Franklin’s day, the era of Enlightenment, long before he was an eminent statesman, he was famous for his revolutionary scientific work. Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray uses the evolution of Franklin’s scientific curiosity and empirical thinking as a metaphor for America’s struggle to establish its fundamental values. He recounts how Franklin unlocked one of the greatest natural mysteries of his day, the seemingly unknowable powers of lightning and electricity. Rich in historical detail and based on numerous primary sources, Stealing God’s Thunder is a fascinating original look at one of our most beloved and complex founding fathers.

The Making of a Patriot

Author : Sheila L. Skemp
Publisher : Critical Historical Encounters
ISBN 13 : 0195386574
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Making of a Patriot written by Sheila L. Skemp and published by Critical Historical Encounters. This book was released on 2013 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Making of a Patriot, renowned Franklin historian Sheila Skemp presents a insightful, lively narrative that goes beyond the traditional Franklin biography--and behind the common myths--to demonstrate how Franklin's ultimate decision to support the colonists was by no means a foregone conclusion.

Benjamin Franklin in London

Author : George Goodwin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220243
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in London written by George Goodwin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Franklin's British years.

The First American

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307754944
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The First American written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man” (The Washington Post) by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War. "The authoritative Franklin biography for our time.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin's "life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands" (The Dallas Morning News). From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America’s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world’s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin’s greatness and humanity, The First American is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: ANDREW JACKSON, THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN.

The Mathers

Author : Robert Middlekauff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520219304
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book The Mathers written by Robert Middlekauff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-06-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

The Works of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Benjamin Franklin: Inventor of the Nation!

Author : Mark Shulman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1645173704
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin: Inventor of the Nation! written by Mark Shulman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of America’s foremost inventor and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin, in graphic novel format. Benjamin Franklin has been called one of the most accomplished and influential Americans in history, and his role in shaping the United States has had a lasting impact that is still felt today. From his birth in Boston in 1706 to his days as a printer, inventor, and politician, Benjamin Franklin: Inventor of the Nation! tells the story of “the First American” in an accessible graphic novel format. Franklin’s research into topics as varied as electricity, meteorology, demography, and oceanography were as wide-ranging and important as his travels, which took him across the globe as a diplomat for the newly founded United States toward the end of the 18th century.

The Common Cause

Author : Robert G. Parkinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626926
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Common Cause written by Robert G. Parkinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic. In a fresh reading of the founding moment, Parkinson demonstrates the dual projection of the "common cause." Patriots through both an ideological appeal to popular rights and a wartime movement against a host of British-recruited slaves and Indians forged a racialized, exclusionary model of American citizenship.

The Autobiography and Other Writings

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451469887
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography and Other Writings written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father. Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. During his long life, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure his country’s survival. Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments. Additional writings from Benjamin Franklin’s wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who became a legend in his own time. Edited by L. Jesse Lemich With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson and an Afterword by Carla Mulford