Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Writing
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Correspondence and miscellaneous writings, 1788-1790. Supplement (1743-1785)
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Writings of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Works of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Writings of Benjamin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Writings, Collected and Ed. with a Life and Introd
Author: Benjamin FranklinLife, 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
Franklin's Vocabulary
Author: Lois Margaret MacLaurinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin's Printing Network
Author: Ralph FrascaPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826264921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
"Explores Benjamin Franklin's network of partnerships and business relationships with printers. His network altered practices in both European and American colonial printing trades by providing capital and political influence to set up working partnerships with James Parker, Francis Childs, Benjamin Mecom, Benjamin Franklin Bache, David Hall, Anthony Armbruster, and others"--Provided by publisher.