Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Oliver Joseph Thatcher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Thomas Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prices
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Esmond Wright
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674066540
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Get Book Here

Book Description
A biography of the statesman, scientist, and businessman describing his life and achievements.

Author: Christopher J. Murrey
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590333846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Get Book Here

Book Description
Benjamin Franklin is generally considered one of America's most versatile and talented statesmen, scientists, and philosophers. His achievements include publisher of Poor Richard's Almanac and many articles on political, economic, religious, philosophical and scientific subjects. He was the inventor of bifocals, the Franklin stove, lightening rod, he was one of the signers of the 'Declaration of Independence', and the founder of, what is now the University of Pennsylvania. This book presents a detailed and riveting review of Franklin's life based on excerpts from the renowned 1899 book on Franklin by Sydney George Fisher. This overview is augmented by a substantial selective bibliography, which features access through title, subject and author indexes.

Author: Walter Isaacson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743260848
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 607

Get Book Here

Book Description
In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard’s Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation’s alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin’s amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192836694
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Get Book Here

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.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 190

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: David M. Ricci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521543705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Get Book Here

Book Description
Good Citizenship in America describes a civic ideal of who enjoys membership in the state and what obligations that entails, and traces its history in America. Until 1865, this ideal called for virtuous political behavior (republicanism) but extended the franchise beyond early republican expectations (democracy). The book follows the widening of the franchise to women and people of color and to those with little or no property following economic development post 1865. In the twentieth century, the civic ideal was influenced by the increase of consumerism, its peak after World War II, and its subsequent decline. More recent citizenship, informed by environmental problems and growing global Darwinism, places a bigger and bigger emphasis on the 'economic conscience'. This is an easily accessible analysis of civic trends in America, and one that highlights much of what is decent in American life.

Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 842

Get Book Here

Book Description