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Not your usual founding father selected readings from Benjamin Franklin

Summary: Presents a comprehensive collection of lesser-known writings of founding father Benjamin Franklin including journal entries and letters that express his personal views, habits, discoveries, and political thoughts.

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  • ISBN: 9780300135015 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0300135017 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0300113943 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780300113945
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    remote
    1 online resource (xiv, 303 p.) : ill., map.
  • Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
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Multi-User.
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Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. The young man and the old man -- 2. Friendship and flirtation -- 3. The uses of laughter -- 4. Religion -- 5. Sickness and health -- 6. Wind, weather, and air -- 7. Ships and the sea -- 8. Electric fire -- 9. Geology and cosmology -- 10. The colonies and the empire -- 11. Ethnic pride and prejudice -- 12. Join or die -- 13. The vision challenged -- 14. The empire at risk -- 15. Independence -- 16. Poor Richard's diplomacy -- 17. A huckstered peace -- 18. The pretensions of wealth -- 19. America.
Restrictions on Access Note:
Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : 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:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790 -- Correspondence
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790 -- Philosophy
Statesmen -- United States -- Archives
Hommes d'État -- États-Unis -- Archives
Statesmen -- United States
HISTORY
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General
United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775 -- Sources
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Sources
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789 -- Sources
United States -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Sources
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790
United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789
United States -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790 -- Correspondance
Franklin, Benjamin -- 1706-1790 -- Pensée politique et sociale
États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- Jusqu'à 1775 -- Sources
États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1775-1783 -- Sources
États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1783-1789 -- Sources
États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle -- Sources
Genre: Electronic books.

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