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Benjamin Franklin Unmasked

Author : Jerry Weinberger
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700615849
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Unmasked written by Jerry Weinberger and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2005-09-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral paragon, public servant, founding father; scoundrel, opportunist, womanizing phony: There are many Benjamin Franklins. Now, as we celebrate the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, Jerry Weinberger reveals the Franklin behind the many masks and shows that the real Franklin was far more remarkable than anyone has yet discovered. Taking the Autobiography as the key to Franklin's thought, Weinberger argues that previous assessments have not yet probed to the bottom of Ben's famous irony and elusiveness. While others take the self-portrait as an elder statesman's relaxed and playful retrospection, Weinberger unveils it as the window to Franklin's deepest reflections on God, virtue, justice, equality, natural rights, love, the good life, the modern technological project, and the place and limits of reason in politics and human experience. Along the way, Weinberger explores Franklin's ribald humor, usually ignored or toned down by historians and critics, and shows it to be charming-and philosophic. Following Franklin's rhetorical twists and turns, Weinberger discovers a serious thinker who was profoundly critical of religion, moral virtue, and political ideals and whose grasp of human folly constrained his hopes for enlightenment and political reform. This close and amusing reading of Franklin portrays a scrupulous dialectical philosopher, humane and wise, but more provocative and disturbing than even the most hardboiled interpreters have taken Franklin to be-a freethinking critic of Enlightenment freethinking, who played his moral and theological cards very close to the vest. Written for general readers who want to delve more deeply into the mind of a great man and great American, Benjamin Franklin Unmasked shows us a massively powerful intellect lurking behind the leather-apron countenance. This lively, witty, and revelatory book is indispensable for those who want to meet the real Franklin.

Benjamin Franklin Unmasked

Author : Jerry Weinberger
Publisher : American Political Thought
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Unmasked written by Jerry Weinberger and published by American Political Thought. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taking the Autobiography as the key to Franklin's thought, Weinberger argues that previous assessments have not yet probed to the bottom of Ben's famous irony and elusiveness. While others take the self-portrait as an elder statesman's relaxed and playful retrospection, Weinberger unveils it as the window to Franklin's deepest reflections on God, virtue, justice, equality, natural rights, love, the good life, the modern technological project, and the place and limits of reason in politics and human experience. Along the way, Weinberger explores Franklin's ribald humor, usually ignored or toned down by historians and critics, and shows it to be charming - and philosophic.".

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.

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1596980303
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally written as a guide for his son, Benjamin Franklin discusses his life, accomplishments, and ideas.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427067678
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1940 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue

Author : Kevin Slack
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465633
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue written by Kevin Slack and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough examination of Benjamin Franklin's works on philosophy and politics, arguing that Franklin was a philosopher of natural right

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ..

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin .. written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point where the Autobiography Ends, Drawn Chiefly from His Letters

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Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book ... The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and a Sketch of Franklin's Life from the Point where the Autobiography Ends, Drawn Chiefly from His Letters written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801886669
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin written by Lorraine Smith Pangle and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin's political writings are full of fascinating reflections on human nature, on the character of good leadership, and on why government is such a messy and problematic business. Drawing together threads in Franklin's writings, Lorraine Smith Pangle illuminates his thoughts on citizenship, federalism, constitutional government, the role of civil associations, and religious freedom.

Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World

Author : Paul E. Kerry
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611470293
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World written by Paul E. Kerry and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific treatises that made his name amongst the brightest minds of Europe, newspaper articles, satires, and of course his signature on the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution—and yet scholars debate how to get at his political thought, indeed, if he had any political philosophy at all. It could be argued, that he is perhaps the American Founder most closely associated with the Enlightenment. Similarly, for a man who left so much evidence about his life as a printer, bookseller, postmaster, inventor, diplomat, politician, scientist, among other professions, one who wrote an autobiography that has become a piece of American national literature and, indeed, a contribution to world culture, the question of who Ben Franklin continues to engage scholars and those who read about his life. His identity seems so stable that we associate it with certain virtues that apply to the way we live our lives, time management, for example. The image of the stable figure of Franklin is applied to create a sense of trust in everything from financial institutions to plumbers. His constant drive to improve and fashion himself reveal, however, a man whose identity was not static and fixed, but was focused on growth, on bettering his understanding of himself and the world he lived in and attempted to influence and improve.

Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin: His Autobiography written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marvelous Microfossils

Author : Patrick De Wever
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421436736
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Marvelous Microfossils written by Patrick De Wever and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Wever's ode to the invisible world around us allows readers to peer directly into a minute microcosm with massive implications, even traversing eons to show us how life arose on Earth.

The Works of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 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 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760349843
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2017 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about the fascinating life of Benjamin Franklin in this beautifully illustrated version of his autobiography.

Bolt Of Fate

Author : Tom Tucker
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786739428
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Bolt Of Fate written by Tom Tucker and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every schoolchild in America knows that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1752. Electricity from the clouds above traveled down the kite's twine and threw a spark from a key that Franklin had attached to the string. He thereby proved that lightning and electricity were one. What many of us do not realize is that Franklin used this breakthrough in his day's intensely competitive field of electrical science to embarrass his French and English rivals. His kite experiment was an international event and the Franklin that it presented to the world—a homespun, rural philosopher-scientist performing an immensely important and dangerous experiment with a child's toy—became the Franklin of myth. In fact, this sly presentation on Franklin's part so charmed the French that he became an irresistible celebrity when he traveled there during the American Revolution. The crowds and the journalists, and the ladies, cajoled the French powers into joining us in our fight against the British. What no one has successfully proven until now—and what few have suggested—is that Franklin never flew the kite at all. Benjamin Franklin was an enthusiastic hoaxer. And with the electric kite, he performed his greatest hoax. As Tucker shows, it was this trick that may have won the American Revolution.