Author: Phillips RussellPublisher: New York: Brentano's
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin, the First Civilized American
Author: Phillips RussellPublisher: New York: Brentano's
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin
Author: Phillips RussellBenjamin Franklin
Author: Brentano's (Firm)The First American
Author: H. W. BrandsPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385495404
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man” (The Washington Post) by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War. "The authoritative Franklin biography for our time.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin's "life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands" (The Dallas Morning News). From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America’s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world’s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin’s greatness and humanity, The First American is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy.
America's First Civilized Man
Author: Richard J. HoffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin
Author: Phillips RussellBenjamin Franklin
Author: Phillips RussellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258841607
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.
Ben Franklin
Author: Thomas FlemingPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402745232
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The life of the printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.
Benjamin Franklin - "The First American"?
Author: Christian ImberiPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638582361
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, course: Transcendent Experience in American Literature, language: English, abstract: Benjamin Franklin is often called the “father“ of America, the fabulous American, or “the first American”, or as a anonymous reporter from 1856 wrote in theNew York Timesthat Franklin “was the incarnation of the true American character... Franklin was the true type of the pure, noble, republican feeling of America“(Huang p.31). Born as the son of a soap and candle maker in 1706 he then became one of the most famous Americans in his time and is even today well known, he is the embodiment of the American dream, from the dishwasher to the millionaire. Franklin was also an inventor, writer and philosopher, furthermore he was the first American who was international honoured and respected as politician and scientist. He was also “the only leading American who signed all four of the major documents that laid the foundation of the republic: the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Treaties of Alliance (1778), the Peace Treaty between Great Britain and the United States (1783), and the Constitution of the United States (1787)” (Huang, p.37). But was is it that made him “the first American”? Which are the “American” attributes that Franklin embodies and in how far can one read these attributes and attitudes in Franklin’s autobiography and other writings? Was it his liberal and democratic sense, his belief in science and in progress that made him ahead of his time? Did his attributes shape the following generations and characterize the American Way even in nowadays? Is that the reason to say Benjamin Franklin is the first American? In his autobiography he describes his life in his own words and it is impressive how much attributes that are today considered to be American can be found autobiography and in some other writings of him. So the focus will be the search for similarities between Franklin’s “character” and the so called Americanness or thing that are supposed to American. The first very American thing about Benjamin Franklin is his way from rags to riches, it is also the first thing that comes to one’s mind when thinking about America. He fulfilled “the” American Dream. He was born as the son of a soap and candle maker and became one of the most famous Americans at his, and even still in our time. But of course his fame, and wealth didn’t fall from the sky, it was his work ethic, his self-reliance, his self-education, and his endurance that brought him that far. This work ethic, and endurance is very American, and an example for “Americanness”.
Benjamin Franklin
Author: Susan R. GregsonPublisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736844963
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A survey of the life of Benjamin Franklin, one of America's greatest inventors, philosophers, public servants, and political leaders. Follows Franklin's beginnings as a printer's apprentice, his life of public service and scientific experimentation, and his role as an originator and signer of the Declaration of Independence and other documents that created the United States of America.