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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Author Gordon Wood

Format Paperback

Publisher Penguin (Non-Classics)

Category Founding of America

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From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republicand winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizescomes 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 complexand 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.

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Release Date: 2005-05-31
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780143035282

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