| Description |
499 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-480) and index. |
| Contents |
The journalist as man of letters / Norman S. Grabo -- "Infamous practices" : risk-taking in Franklin's early journalism / Jeffery A. Smith -- Politics and temperance in Boston and Philadelphia : Benjamin Franklin's journalistic writings on drinking and drunkenness / Robert D. Arner -- "Scandal, like other virtues, is in part its own reward" : Franklin working the crime beat / Ronald A. Bosco -- Benjamin Franklin as publisher and bookseller / James N. Green -- Pride, prejudice, and jealousy : Benjamin Franklin's explanation for the American Revolution / Jack P. Greene -- Was Franklin too French? / Claude-Anne Lopez -- The peace treaties of 1782 and 1783 : diplomacy by affection / Esmond Wright -- "Plain, insinuating, persuasive" : Benjamin Franklin's final speech to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 / Barbara B. Oberg -- Franklin as enlightened natural philosopher / J.L. Heilbron. |
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The bookkeeper of nature : Benjamin Franklin's electrical research and the development of experimental natural philosophy in the eighteenth century / Heinz Otto Sibum -- The American and British portraits of Benjamin Franklin / Wayne Craven -- The French portraits of Benjamin Franklin / Ellen G. Miles -- Benjamin Franklin and traditional music / Ellen R. Cohn -- Franklin's library / Edwin Wolf 2nd -- Franklin and emigration : the trajectory of use / Stephen Fender -- Caritas and capital : Franklin's Narrative of the late massacres / Carla Mulford -- The alleged puritanism of Benjamin Franklin / A. Owen Aldridge -- The theme of vanity in Franklin's Autobiography / J.A. Leo Lemay -- Benjamin Franklin as founding father of American humor / Daniel Royot -- Franklin's vocabulary / David Yerkes -- Dr. Janus / Ralph Lerner. |
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Collective benevolence and the common good in Franklin's philanthropy / John C. Van Horne -- Doing good while doing well : benevolence and self-interest in Franklin's Autobiography / Michael Zuckerman. |
| Subject |
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
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Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. |
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Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
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Statesmen. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Printers -- United States -- Biography.
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Printers. |
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Scientists -- United States -- Biography.
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Scientists. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Lemay, J. A. Leo (Joseph A. Leo), 1935-2008.
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| ISBN |
087413448X alkaline paper |
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