Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture 1790 1990 written by Nian-Sheng Huang and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Benjamin Franklin’s life and legacy have been used, misused, interpreted, and reinterpreted throughout American history and popular culture A teenage runaway whose face later appeared on the one-hundred-dollar bill, as well as the man who penned Poor Richard’s Almanac and later helped shape the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin lived a life of wide-ranging dimension, talent, contradiction, and change. A printer, writer, publisher, inventor, scientist, philanthropist, and diplomat, he was a quintessential Renaissance man. Down-to-earth and pragmatic, self-educated and versatile, inquisitive and resourceful, witty and humorous, irreverent and rebellious, Franklin has come to embody emphatically American characteristics. How people have used, misused, interpreted, and reinterpreted his life and legacy provides a fascinating window through which to understand American history. Nian-Sheng Huang studies the historical figure of Franklin, not as an icon on a pedestal, but through the eyes, voices, perceptions, and public activities of ordinary Americans, in popular culture and across generations.
Download or read book The Chronology of Benjamin Franklin written by Isaac Minis Hays and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture 1790 1938 written by Nian-Sheng Huang and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture 1790 1990 written by Nian-Sheng Huang and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Benjamin Franklin's diverse legacies in American life from 1790, the year of his death, to 1990. This book also focuses on the intricate relations between the functions of images and perceptions in society on the one hand and the changing social and cultural conditions that have constantly affected the alterations of those images and perceptions on the other. Includes a Selected Bibliography. Illustrations.
Download or read book Cents Sensibility Benjamin Franklin Popular Culture The Common Wealth Benjamin Franklin the Building of Community written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Jonathan Edwards and the Representation of American Culture written by Barbara Oberg and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays which looks at aspects of the thought of Edwards and Franklin and considers their places in American culture.
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:
Download or read book The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American political thought. In this substantial collection of Franklin's letters, essays, and lesser-known papers, Ralph Ketcham traces the development of Franklin's practical-and distinctly American-political thought from his earliest Silence Dogood essays to his final writings on the Constitution and The Evils of the Slave Trade.
Download or read book The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin is a comprehensive collection of writings by the renowned American polymath. This anthology showcases Franklin's diverse literary style, ranging from political essays and scientific observations to witty aphorisms and personal correspondence. Each piece provides insight into the intellectual climate of colonial America and the Age of Enlightenment, highlighting Franklin's role as a key figure in shaping American identity and values. The inclusion of both well-known works like Poor Richard's Almanack and lesser-known pieces offers a complete portrait of Franklin's literary genius and diverse interests. Benjamin Franklin, a Founding Father of the United States, was a prolific writer, inventor, diplomat, and statesman. His multifaceted career and participation in the American Revolution influenced his writings, reflecting a deep commitment to civic virtue, individual freedom, and the pursuit of knowledge. Franklin's pragmatic approach to self-improvement and public service continues to resonate with readers today, making his works a valuable resource for understanding American history and culture. Scholars and readers interested in American literature, history, and philosophy will find The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin a valuable addition to their libraries. Franklin's timeless wisdom and moral insights offer guidance on issues that remain relevant in contemporary society, making this collection an essential read for anyone seeking to explore the foundations of American thought and identity.
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin written by Edwin S. Gaustad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer, inventor, diplomat, businessman, musician, scientist, humorist, and civic leader are only a few of the hats Franklin wore. Edwin S. Gaustad presents a balanced account of Franklin's life, emphasizing Franklin's character and personality and quoting extensively from Franklin's own writings. Oxford Portraits are informative and insightful biographies of people whose lives shaped their times and continue to influence ours. Based on the most recent scholarship, they draw heavily on primary sources, including writings by and about their subjects. Each book is illustrated with a wealth of photographs, documents, memorabilia, framing the personality and achievements of its subject against the backdrop of history.
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 321 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.
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.
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Self Revealed Vol 1 2 written by Wiliam Cabell Bruce and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed is a biographical and critical study on Benjamin Franklin's life and work mostly based on Franklin's own writings. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading writer, printer, political philosopher, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As an inventor, he is known for the lightning rod, bifocals, and the Franklin stove, among other inventions. Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies. As the first United States ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. Contents: Franklin's Moral Standing and System Franklin's Religious Beliefs Franklin, the Philanthropist and Citizen Franklin's Family Relations Franklin's American Friends Franklin's British Friends Franklin's French Friends Franklin's Personal Characteristics Franklin as a Man of Business Franklin as a Statesman Franklin as a Man of Science Franklin as a Writer
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin written by Edward Robins and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memoirs of the Life Writings of Benjamin Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of Ben Franklin written by Benjamin Franklin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection starts first and foremost with Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, one of the most famous and influential autobiographies ever written. The edition includes all the collections of his writings, together with various papers that have been published in separate pamphlets. All the writing are methodically arranged, the moral and philosophical works according to their subjects and the political papers according to their dates. Contents: Autobiography Letters and Papers on Electricity Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects Papers on Subjects of General Politics Papers on American Subjects Before the Revolutionary Troubles Papers on American Subjects During the Revolutionary Troubles Papers, Descriptive of America, or Relating to That Country, Written Subsequent to the Revolution Papers on Moral Subjects and the Economy of Life Letters by Several Eminent Persons, Illustrative of Dr. Franklin's Manners and Character
