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1) Franklin
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"The genial, witty, generous Franklin is here. So, too, is the practical businessman who managed at the age of forty-two to retire from his print shop and live the rest of his life largely off investments... Hawke seeks to present sides of Franklin seldom emphasized in previous works- the visionary, the politician, the electrical experimenter"--from jacket flaps.
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"This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence. Sponsored jointly by the American Philosophical Society and Yale University, this new edition of forty volumes will contain everything that Franklin wrote that can be found and, for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addressed to him, the whole arranged in chronological order. To...
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This volume on Benjamin Franklin contains sections on literary, political, economic, scientific and religious concerns. Beginning with an introduction surveying the history of scholarly comment on Franklin, the volume includes essays by D.H. Lawrence attacking Franklin, and Ormond Seavey clarifying the attack in "Benjamin Franklin and D.H. Lawrence as Conflicting Modes of Consciousness." Other articles cover Franklin as a diplomat; his last years...
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Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace treaty with Britain that ended the Revolutionary War. He also invented bifocals, a stove that is still manufactured, a water-harmonica, and the lightning rod. Franklin's extraordinary range of interests and accomplishments...
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Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir - a model of the genre - in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places. Douglas Anderson's study of this work reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative and radical as the inventions and political thought for which he is renowned. Franklin never completed his autobiography, choosing instead to immerse his reader...
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A treasury of over 900 quotations spoken by the "first American" as well as numerous entertaining anecdotes about his adventures and misadventures. Covering everything from Sage Sayings to Franklin Fables, it includes a timeline of Franklin's life and the world around him.--From publisher description.
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In this study of the statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality--his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships--political adversaries like the Penns, John Adams, and Arthur Lee--and great disappointments--the most significant being his son, William, who sided with the British. Utilizing an abundance...
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"Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the 'thorough' deist who emerges in his autobiography. As Thomas Kidd reveals, deist writers...
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A jewel of musical history-- the story of Ben Franklin's favorite invention, the glass armonica-- including the composers who wrote for it (Mozart, Beethoven, Handel, among others); Dr. Mesmer who used it to hypnotize; Marie Antoinette and the women who popularized it; its decline and recent comeback"--Amazon.com.
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"The intention of this collection is to bring together representative essays from a variety of critical perspectives, partly to give some sense of Franklin's achievement but also to draw attention to some of the inconsistencies, contradictions, and even failings that made him who he was."--About this volume.
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