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Peter Johnson (narrator) and
Gordon S. Wood
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Highbridge Co
Publication date
May 24, 2004
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781565118867
ISBN-10
1565118863
Dimensions
1.25 by 5.25 by 6 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$34.95
Other format details
audio
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A leading historian of the American Revolution offers an incisive portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmolitan lover of Europe, a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary, and an ambassador whose French diplomacy, crucial to the American cause, became a source of suspicion at home. Simultaneous.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic-and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes-comes 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 complex-and 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.
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.
Editions
Hardcover
from Penguin Pr (May 1, 2004)
9781594200199 | details & prices | 299 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.75 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $25.95
About: Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
About: Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (June 1, 2005)
9780143035282 | details & prices | 299 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.94 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
About: Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
With Peter Johnson (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Highbridge Co (May 24, 2004)
9781565118867 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $34.95
About: Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
About: Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Peter Johnson (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Highbridge Co (May 1, 2004)
9781565118850 | details & prices | 3.25 × 6.25 × 2.50 in. | 0.62 lbs | List price $34.95
About: Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
About: Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.
Prebinding
Reprint edition from Paw Prints (May 29, 2008)
9781435293076 | details & prices | 299 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.82 lbs | List price $25.00
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