Author: David HumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Letters of David Hume to William Strahan
Author: David HumePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, Now First Edited with Notes, Index, Etc
Author: David HumeThe Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Gordon S. WoodPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143035282
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
“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.
Autobiography and Other Writings
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192836694
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime. This edition provides a new text of the "Autobiography", established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a transcription of the 1726 journal.
Writing
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Author: Peter MoorePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374600600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
“Gripping . . . Vibrant . . . A wonderfully absorbing and stimulating book.” —Sarah Bakewell, NBCC Award–winning author of How to Live and Humanly Possible “[A] rollicking account . . . The book’s compulsive readability is a tribute to Moore’s skill at cracking open the pre-revolutionary period.” —Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post A spirited group biography that explores the origins of the most iconic words in American history, and the remarkable transatlantic context from which they emerged. The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. “The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness” was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with “the preservation of.” In a statement as pithy—and contested—as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final, iconizing revision was the last in a long chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back. The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down—and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America. Peter Moore’s Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the “American dream.” Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution. Includes 16 pages of black-and-white images
The Works of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts not Included in any Former Edition, and many Letters, Official and Private, not Hitherto Published. With Notes and a Life of the Author
Author: Jared SparksPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385418135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Colonial and revolutionary literature. Early national literature, pt. I
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
A Short History of American Literature
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description