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Benjamin Franklin : Inventing America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford Portraits SeriesPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (145 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780198035756
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Benjamin FranklinDDC classification:
  • 973.3092
LOC classification:
  • E302.6.F8 .G387 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 THE IMPROPER BOSTONIAN -- Hooped Petticoats and the Folly of Fashion -- 2 B. FRANKLIN, PRINTER -- Franklin in Training-for Virtue -- 3 DOCTOR FRANKLIN -- Solving the Mystery of Lightning and Thunder -- 4 PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS -- Can the American Colonies Possibly Unite? -- 5 THE ROAD TO SEPARATION -- Franklin Tries to Sway Public Opinion in London -- 6 WAR AND PEACE -- B. Franklin on J. Adams -- 7 NEW NATION AND AGED PATRIACH -- Franklin Lobbies Against Slavery and the Slave Trade -- CHRONOLOGY -- FURTHER READING AND WEBSITES -- HISTORIC SITES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 THE IMPROPER BOSTONIAN -- Hooped Petticoats and the Folly of Fashion -- 2 B. FRANKLIN, PRINTER -- Franklin in Training-for Virtue -- 3 DOCTOR FRANKLIN -- Solving the Mystery of Lightning and Thunder -- 4 PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS -- Can the American Colonies Possibly Unite? -- 5 THE ROAD TO SEPARATION -- Franklin Tries to Sway Public Opinion in London -- 6 WAR AND PEACE -- B. Franklin on J. Adams -- 7 NEW NATION AND AGED PATRIACH -- Franklin Lobbies Against Slavery and the Slave Trade -- CHRONOLOGY -- FURTHER READING AND WEBSITES -- HISTORIC SITES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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.

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