The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
by Wood, Gordon S
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- Hardcover
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- Very good. No dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 159420019X
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200199
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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.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60776
- Title
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
- Author
- Wood, Gordon S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 159420019X
- ISBN 13
- 9781594200199
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- John Adams, American Revolution, Peter Collinson, Silas Deane, Deborah Read Franklin, Sarah Franklin, William Franklin, Joseph Galloway, Thomas Hutchinson, Thomas Penn, Stamp Act, William Strahan, Vergennes, Charles Thomson
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