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Benjamin Franklin's humor

Zall, Paul M. (Author).

Summary: Humor is sometimes a serious business, especially the humor of Benjamin Franklin, a master at revealing the human condition through comedy. For the country's bicentennial, Reader's Digest named Franklin "Man of the Year" for embodying the characteristics we admire most about ourselves as Americans-humor, irony, energy, and fresh insight. Recreating Franklin's words in the way that his contemporaries would have read and understood them, Paul M. Zall chronicles Franklin's use (and abuse) of humor for commercial, diplomatic, and political purposes. Dedicated to the uniquely appealing and endurin.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780813123714
  • ISBN: 0813123712
  • ISBN: 0813134862
  • ISBN: 9780813134864
  • ISBN: 9781283232913
  • ISBN: 128323291X
  • ISBN: 0813138175
  • ISBN: 9780813138176
  • ISBN: 9780813171869
  • ISBN: 0813171865
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages)
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  • Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Silence Dogood, 1722-1723 -- Paragraphs in Philadelphia, 1729-1735 -- Philadelphia's Poor Richard, 1733-1748 -- Philadelphia comic relief, 1748-1757 -- Making friends overseas, 1757-1774 -- Losing London, 1773-1776 -- Seducing Paris, 1776-1782 -- Comic release, 1783-1785 -- Revising past and future, 1786-1790.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790 -- Language
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790 -- Literary style
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790 -- Quotations
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790
Franklin, Benjamin
American wit and humor
Statesmen -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
American wit and humor
Language and languages
Statesmen
Literary style
United States
Humor
Genre: Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Quotations.
Quotations.

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