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Title:

The Cambridge companion to Benjamin Franklin / edited by Carla Mulford.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xxii, 183 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Political and social views.
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Knowledge and learning.
Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790--Influence.
Statesmen--United States--Biography.
Scientists--United States--Biography.
United States--Intellectual life--18th century.

Other Authors:

Mulford, Carla, 1955-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-176) and index.

Contents:

Benjamin Franklin's library / Kevin J. Hayes -- The art of virtue / Douglas Anderson -- Franklin's satiric vein / Paul E. Kerry -- Franklin in the republic of letters / David S. Shields -- Benjamin Franklin's natural philosophy / Joyce E. Chaplin -- Franklin and the Enlightenment / Frank Kelleter -- Franklin and the question of religion / Kerry Walters -- The pragmatist in Franklin / James Campbell -- Franklin on national character and the Great Seal of the United States / Lester C. Olson -- Protestant ethic or conspicuous consumption? : Benjamin Franklin and the Gilded Age / Wilson J. Moses -- Benjamin Franklin and the American dream / Nian-Sheng Huang and Carla Mulford -- Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, then and now / Stephen Carl Arch.

Series:

Cambridge companions to American studies

ISBN:

0521691869 (pbk.)
9780521691864 (pbk.)
0521871344 (hardback)
9780521871341 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)243845213

LCCN:

2008033470

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)