Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Category : Saving and investment
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Richard Thompson
Publisher: Emmis Books
ISBN: 9781578601844
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Richard's Poor Almanac, inspired by seven years of weekly contributions to the Washington Post, is Richard Thompson's omnium-gatherum of seasoned observations for all seasons -- indoors and out. Like the almanac we've all come to know and ignore, Richard's Poor Almanac is an annual compendium of weathered wisdom rendered in the more palatable form of cartooning.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Paul Leicester Ford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337254872
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin - Originally Printed in Poor Richard's Almanacs for 1733-1758 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author: Tom Blair
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1616081902
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Tom Blair has written, in the voice of Ben Franklin, an updated-for-today book that draws on the essence of Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack to view America in 2011.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Collects Benjamin Franklin's best-known writings, both personal and public, arranged by period and place, and includes scholarly notes.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110737
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many issues of Franklin's popular 18th-century publication: "He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas" and many others.

Author: Debra Bricker Balken
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226036227
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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In 1971, as the race for the presidency heated up, the artist Philip Guston (1913-1980) created a series of caricatures of Richard Nixon titled Philip Guston's Poor Richard. Produced two years before Watergate and three years before Nixon's resignation, these provocative, searing condemnations of a corrupt head of state are remarkable, prescient political satire. The drawings mock Nixon's physical attributes—his nose is rendered as an enlarged phallus throughout-as well as his notoriously dubious, shifty character. Debra Bricker Balken's book is the first book—length publication of these drawings. A visual narrative of Nixon's life, the drawings trace Nixon from his childhood, through his ascent to power, to his years in the White House. They incorporate Henry Kissinger (a pair of glasses), Spiro Agnew (a cone-head), and John Mitchell (a dolt smoking a pipe). They depict Nixon and his cohorts in China, plotting strategy in Key Biscayne, and shamelessly pandering to African Americans, hippies, and elderly tourists. As Balken discusses in her accompanying essay, these drawings also reflect a dramatic transformation in Guston's work. In response to social unrest and the Vietnam War, he began to question the viability of a private art given to self-expression. His betrayal of aesthetic abstraction in favor of imagery imbued with personal and political meaning largely engendered the renewal of figuration in painting in America in the 1970s. These drawings not only represent one of the few instances of an artist in the late twentieth century engaging caricature in his work, they are also a witty, acerbic take on a corrupt figure and a scandalous political regime.