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Book Synopsis A Great Improvisation by : Stacy Schiff
Download or read book A Great Improvisation written by Stacy Schiff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-01-10 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a streaming series ● In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career "In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative account of how Benjamin Franklin--seventy years old, without any diplomatic training, and possessed of the most rudimentary French--convinced France, an absolute monarchy, to underwrite America's experiment in democracy. When Franklin stepped onto French soil, he well understood he was embarking on the greatest gamble of his career. By virtue of fame, charisma, and ingenuity, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies, French informers, and hostile colleagues; engineered the Franco-American alliance of 1778; and helped to negotiate the peace of 1783. The eight-year French mission stands not only as Franklin's most vital service to his country but as the most revealing of the man. In A Great Improvisation, Stacy Schiff draws from new and little-known sources to illuminate the least-explored part of Franklin's life. Here is an unfamiliar, unforgettable chapter of the Revolution, a rousing tale of American infighting, and the treacherous backroom dealings at Versailles that would propel George Washington from near decimation at Valley Forge to victory at Yorktown. From these pages emerges a particularly human and yet fiercely determined Founding Father, as well as a profound sense of how fragile, improvisational, and international was our country's bid for independence.
Book Synopsis Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment by : Rebecca Cypess
Download or read book Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment written by Rebecca Cypess and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical salons as liminal spaces: salonnières as agents of musical culture -- Sensuality, sociability, and sympathy: musical salon practices as enactments of Enlightenment --Ephemerae and authorship in the salon of Madame Brillon -- Composition, collaboration, and the cultivation of skill in the salon of Marianna Martines -- The cultural work of collecting and performing in the salon of Sara Levy -- Musical improvisation and poetic painting in the salon of Angelica Kauffman -- Reading musically in the salon of Elizabeth Graeme -- Conclusion.
Book Synopsis Major Writers of Early American Literature by : Everett H. Emerson
Download or read book Major Writers of Early American Literature written by Everett H. Emerson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding collection of original critical essays by distinguished specialists, this book is both a chronological survey of nearly 200 years of American literature and an exciting reappraisal of the major figures of that period. Includes works from Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, William Bryd, Anne Bradstreet, William Bradford, and others.
Book Synopsis Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 by : Catherine Jones
Download or read book Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767-1867 written by Catherine Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study looks at the relationship of rhetoric and music in the era's intellectual discourses, texts and performance cultures principally in Europe and North America. Catherine Jones begins by examining the attitudes to music and its performance by leading figures of the American Enlightenment and Revolution, notably Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. She also looks at the attempts of Francis Hopkinson, William Billings and others to harness the Orphean power of music so that it should become a progressive force in the creation of a new society. She argues that the association of rhetoric and music that reaches back to classical Antiquity acquired new relevance and underwent new theorisation and practical application in the American Enlightenment in light of revolutionary Atlantic conditions. Jones goes on to consider changes in the relationship of rhetoric and music in the nationalising milieu of the nineteenth century; the connections of literature, music and music theory to changing models of subjectivity; and Romantic appropriations of Enlightenment visions of the public ethical function of music.
Book Synopsis Mon Cher Papa by : Claude-Anne Lopez
Download or read book Mon Cher Papa written by Claude-Anne Lopez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging account of Franklin's years in Paris and his numerous friendships and romantic conquests there draws on letters written to and from Franklin. Widely praised when it was first published more than twenty years ago, the book provides intriguing insights into eighteenth-century France and the life and the character of America's first ambassador.
Book Synopsis Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 103, no. 6, 1959) by :
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 103, no. 6, 1959) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Scientific American by : Joyce Chaplin
Download or read book The First Scientific American written by Joyce Chaplin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography considers all of Franklin's work in the sciences, showing how, during the rise and fall of the first British empire, science became central to public culture and therefore to Franklin's success. Having demonstrated in his earliest experiments and observations that he could master nature, Franklin showed the world that he was uniquely suited to solve problems in every realm. In the famous adage, Franklin "snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from the tyrants" -- in that order. The famous kite and other experiments with electricity were only part of Franklin's accomplishments. He charted the Gulf Stream, made important observations on meteorology, and used the burgeoning science of "political arithmetic" to make unprecedented statements about America's power. Even as he stepped onto the world stage as an illustrious statesman and diplomat in the years leading up to the American Revolution, his fascination with nature was unrelenting. Franklin was the first American whose "genius" for science qualified him as a genius in political affairs. It is only through understanding Franklin's full engagement with the sciences that we can understand this great Founding Father and the world he shaped.
Book Synopsis Library Bulletin by : American Philosophical Society. Library
Download or read book Library Bulletin written by American Philosophical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writings written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Benjamin Franklin anthology includes Poor Richard's Almanack, The Autobiography, speeches in the Constitutional Convention, writings on slavery, essays, news reporting, political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters.
Book Synopsis A Critical Bibliography of French Literature V4 18th C Supplement by : Richard A. Brooks
Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature V4 18th C Supplement written by Richard A. Brooks and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literary History of the United States: History by : Robert Ernest Spiller
Download or read book Literary History of the United States: History written by Robert Ernest Spiller and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [1] History.--[2] Bibliography.
Book Synopsis Studies in Bibliography by : University of Virginia. Bibliographical Society
Download or read book Studies in Bibliography written by University of Virginia. Bibliographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 10 is a special anniversary volume entitled Selective check lists of bibliographical scholarship, 1949-1955.
Book Synopsis A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: Suppl. The eighteenth century; ed. by R. A. Brooks by : David Clark Cabeen
Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature: Suppl. The eighteenth century; ed. by R. A. Brooks written by David Clark Cabeen and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Eighteenth Century by : Richard A. Brooks
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by Richard A. Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Year Book - The American Philosophical Society by : American Philosophical Society
Download or read book Year Book - The American Philosophical Society written by American Philosophical Society and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members and obituary notices in volumes for 1937- .
Book Synopsis Serial List of Publications by : American Philosophical Society
Download or read book Serial List of Publications written by American Philosophical Society and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Prose to 1820 by : Donald Yannella
Download or read book American Prose to 1820 written by Donald Yannella and published by Detroit : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
