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Author : James Campbell
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812693867
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Recovering Benjamin Franklin written by James Campbell and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781422392645
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Recovering Benjamin Franklin written by James Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin, a great philosopher? James Campbell, a Professor of Philosophy & one of the foremost authorities on Pragmatism, argues that the image of Franklin as cultural icon & ingenious dabbler has concealed his strictly philosophical achievement. After a detailed examination of Franklin¿s surprisingly rich conceptions in four areas -- science, religion, morality, & politics -- Professor Campbell identifies Franklin as an early figure in the Pragmatic movement, his contribution similar in importance to those of Emerson, James, & Dewey. Campbell¿s book is learned, balanced, & informative. His section on `Equality, Race, & Slavery¿ has been praised as ¿philosophical biography at its best, fairly & fascinatingly written.¿
Author : Nick Bunker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101872802
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
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.
Author : Mara Rockliff
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536220582
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Mesmerized written by Mara Rockliff and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Together, Rockliff and Bruno make the scientific method seem exciting, and kids interested in science and history will likely be, well, mesmerized.” — Booklist (starred review) When American inventor Benjamin Franklin arrives in Paris, he is upstaged by a compelling and enigmatic figure: Dr. Mesmer. In elaborately staged shows, Mesmer has Parisians believing he can control a magic force that changes the taste of water, cures illness, and controls thoughts! Can Ben Franklin’s approach of observing, hypothesizing, and testing get to the bottom of Mesmer’s tricks? A rip-roaring, lavishly illustrated peek into a fascinating moment in history shows the development of the scientific method — and reveals the amazing power of the human mind.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin : His Autobiography written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143039549
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Portable Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-03 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin’s major writings—essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of Franklin’s temperament. The result is a zestful read for Franklin scholars and anyone wanting to know and enjoy this American icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 310 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.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613103476
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Writings of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
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 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Writings of Benjamin Franklin: 1789-1790 written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Weiner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501129031
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Socrates Express written by Eric Weiner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history’s greatest thinkers and showing us how each—from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir—offers practical and spiritual lessons for today’s unsettled times. We turn to philosophy for the same reasons we travel: to see the world from a different perspective, to unearth hidden beauty, and to find new ways of being. We want to learn how to embrace wonder. Face regrets. Sustain hope. Eric Weiner combines his twin passions for philosophy and travel in a globe-trotting pilgrimage that uncovers surprising life lessons from great thinkers around the world, from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Confucius to Simone Weil. Traveling by train (the most thoughtful mode of transport), he journeys thousands of miles, making stops in Athens, Delhi, Wyoming, Coney Island, Frankfurt, and points in between to reconnect with philosophy’s original purpose: teaching us how to lead wiser, more meaningful lives. From Socrates and ancient Athens to Beauvoir and 20th-century Paris, Weiner’s chosen philosophers and places provide important practical and spiritual lessons as we navigate today’s chaotic times. In a “delightful” odyssey that “will take you places intellectually and humorously” (San Francisco Book Review), Weiner invites us to voyage alongside him on his life-changing pursuit of wisdom and discovery as he attempts to find answers to our most vital questions. The Socrates Express is “full of valuable lessons…a fun, sharp book that draws readers in with its apparent simplicity and bubble-gum philosophy approach and gradually pulls them in deeper and deeper” (NPR).
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Works of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426326998
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin's Wise Words written by Benjamin Franklin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of the Founding Fathers famous quotes as culled from Poor Richards Almanack, his personal letters and other writings, and offers advice on subjects ranging from good citizenship and manners to friendship and happiness.
Author : Paul M. Zall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189853
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Franklin on Franklin written by Paul M. Zall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography ends in 1758, some thirty years before he died. Those three decades included some of the statesman's greatest triumphs, yet instead of including them in his memoir, Franklin spent the years continually revising his original text. Paul Zall has created a new autobiographical account of Franklin's entire life. By returning to a newly recovered early draft of the Autobiography, he strips away later layers of moralizing to reveal the story as Franklin first wrote it: how a poor boy from Boston used words and hard work to become America's first world-class citizen. To cover Franklin's career as a diplomat and as the only signatory of all three key documents of the American Revolution, Zall interweaves autobiographical comments from Franklin's personal letters and private journals. Franklin emerges as different from the common perception of him as a crafty "Man of Reason." His raw words reveal the bitter infighting among both British and American politicians and his personal struggle with his son's choice of the opposite side in the fight for the future of two countries. Without the veneer of second thoughts, his lifelong struggle to control his temper carries greater poignancy, as do his later years spent nursing his wounded pride. Susceptible to both fallibility and frustration, the honest Franklin depicted in his own words nevertheless remains an uncommon common man, perhaps even more so than previously thought.
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230324500
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (245 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...through a narrow passage, which was crossed by a beam over head. We were still talking as I withdrew, he accompanying me behind, and I turning partly towards him, when he said hastily, 'Stoop! stoop! I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam, v He was a man who never missed any occasion of giving instruction; and upon this he said to me: ' You are young, and have the world before you: stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard thumps.' This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high. I long much to see again my native place; and once hoped to lay my bones there. I left it in 1723. I visited it in 1733, 1743, 1753,1703; and in 1773 I was in England. In 1774. I had a sight of it, but could not enter, it being in possession of the enemy. I did hope to have been there in 1783, but could not obtain my dismission from this employment here; and now I fear I shall never have that happiness. My best wishes however attend my dear country, ' esto perpetual It is now blessed with an excellent constitution: may it last fbi ever! This powerful monarchy continues its friendship for the United States. It is a friendship of tfce utmost importance to our security, and should be carefully cultivated. Britain has not y el well digested the loss of its dominion over us; and has Still at times some flattering hopes of recovering it. Accidents may increase those hopes, and encourage dangerous attempts. A breach between us and France would infallibly bring the English again upon our backs; and yet we have some wild beasts among our countrymen, who are endeavoring to weaken nat..
Author : Benjamin Franklin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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:
