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Title:

Reappraising Benjamin Franklin : a bicentennial perspective / edited by J.A. Leo Lemay.

Publisher:

Associated University Presses,
Associated University Presses,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

499 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Franklin, Benjamin,--1706-1790.
Printers--United States--Biography.
Scientists--United States--Biography.
Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Other Authors:

Lemay, J. A. Leo (Joseph A. Leo), 1935-

Notes:

Includes index. Bibliography: p. 460-480.

Contents:

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.
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.
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.

ISBN:

9780874134483 (alk. paper)
087413448X (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25746464

LCCN:

91050237

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)