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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
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"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.
Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 05/31/2005
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780143035282
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.9
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86433 / Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Award: George Washington Book Prize - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 47
New York Times 07/31/2005 pg. 20
Kliatt 11/01/2005 pg. 28
"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.
Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 05/31/2005
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780143035282
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 10.9
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 86433 / Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Award: George Washington Book Prize - Finalist
Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/2005 pg. 47
New York Times 07/31/2005 pg. 20
Kliatt 11/01/2005 pg. 28
About the Author
Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. His books have received the Pulitzer, Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes, as well as a National Book Award nomination and the New York Historical Society Prize in American History. They include Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, Revolutionary Characters, The Purpose of the Past, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, and The Idea of America.
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