Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diploma...
Chapters (170)
- AMERICAN WRITERS SERIES
- * AMERICAN WRITERS SERIES *
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- I. FRANKLIN'S MILIEU: THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
- II. FRANKLIN'S THEORIES OF EDUCATION
- III. FRANKLIN'S LITERARY THEORY AND PRACTICE [i-121]
- IV. FRANKLIN AS PRINTER AND JOURNALIST
- V. FRANKLIN'S ECONOMIC VIEWS
- VI. FRANKLIN'S POLITICAL THEORIES
- VII. FRANKLIN AS SCIENTIST AND DEIST
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- I. WORKS
- II. COLLECTIONS AND REPRINTS
- III. BIOGRAPHIES
- IV. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
- V. THE AGE OF FRANKLIN
- VI. BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND CHECK LISTS
- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
- From the AUTOBIOGRAPHY[1]
- DOGOOD PAPERS, NO. I
- DOGOOD PAPERS, NO. IV
- DOGOOD PAPERS, NO. V
- DOGOOD PAPERS, NO. VII
- DOGOOD PAPERS, NO. XII
- EDITORIAL PREFACE TO THE NEW ENGLAND COURANT
- A DISSERTATION ON LIBERTY AND NECESSITY, PLEASURE AND PAIN
- RULES FOR A CLUB ESTABLISHED FOR MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT[20]
- ARTICLES OF BELIEF AND ACTS OF RELIGION
- In Two Parts[21]
- Part I
- THE BUSY-BODY, NO. 1[22]
- THE BUSY-BODY, NO. 2
- THE BUSY-BODY, NO. 3
- THE BUSY-BODY, NO. 4
- PREFACE TO THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE
- A DIALOGUE BETWEEN PHILOCLES AND HORATIO, MEETING ACCIDENTALLY IN THE FIELDS, CONCERNING VIRTUE AND PLEASURE
- A SECOND DIALOGUE BETWEEN PHILOCLES AND HORATIO, CONCERNING VIRTUE AND PLEASURE
- A WITCH TRIAL AT MOUNT HOLLY
- AN APOLOGY FOR PRINTERS
- PREFACE TO POOR RICHARD, 1733
- A MEDITATION ON A QUART MUGG[27]
- PREFACE TO POOR RICHARD, 1734
- PREFACE TO POOR RICHARD, 1735
- HINTS FOR THOSE THAT WOULD BE RICH
- TO JOSIAH FRANKLIN[28]
- PREFACE TO POOR RICHARD, 1739
- A PROPOSAL FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AMONG THE BRITISH PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA
- SHAVERS AND TRIMMERS
- TO THE PUBLICK
- PREFACE TO LOGAN'S TRANSLATION OF "CATO MAJOR"[30]
- TO JOHN FRANKLIN, AT BOSTON[31]
- PREFACE TO POOR RICHARD, 1746
- THE SPEECH OF POLLY BAKER[32]
- PREFACE TO POOR RICHARD, 1747
- TO PETER COLLINSON
- PREFACE TO POOR RICHARD IMPROVED, 1748
- ADVICE TO A YOUNG TRADESMAN
- TO GEORGE WHITEFIELD
- PROPOSALS RELATING TO THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH IN PENSILVANIA
- IDEA OF THE ENGLISH SCHOOL
- TO C[ADWALLADER] C[OLDEN] ESQ. AT NEW YORK
- EXPORTING OF FELONS TO THE COLONIES
- OBSERVATIONS
- TO PETER COLLINSON[42]
- TO JOSEPH HUEY
- THREE LETTERS TO GOVERNOR SHIRLEY[45]
- TO MISS CATHERINE RAY[46] [AT BLOCK ISLAND]
- TO PETER COLLINSON
- TO MISS CATHERINE RAY
- TO MISS CATHERINE RAY
- TO MRS. JANE MECOM
- TO MISS E. HUBBARD[51]
- TO REV. GEORGE WHITEFIELD
- THE WAY TO WEALTH
- TO HUGH ROBERTS
- TO MRS. JANE MECOM
- TO LORD KAMES[55]
- TO MISS MARY STEVENSON[58]
- TO MRS. DEBORAH FRANKLIN
- TO JARED INGERSOLL[60]
- TO MISS MARY STEVENSON
- TO JOHN FOTHERGILL, M.D.[66]
- TO SARAH FRANKLIN
- From A NARRATIVE OF THE LATE MASSACRES
- TO THE EDITOR OF A NEWSPAPER
- TO LORD KAMES
- LETTER CONCERNING THE GRATITUDE OF AMERICA[71]
- TO LORD KAMES
- TO MISS MARY STEVENSON
- ON THE LABOURING POOR
- TO DUPONT DE NEMOURS[74]
- TO JOHN ALLEYNE[75]
- TO THE PRINTER OF THE LONDON CHRONICLE[76]
- POSITIONS TO BE EXAMINED, CONCERNING NATIONAL WEALTH
- TO MISS MARY STEVENSON
- TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- TO MISS GEORGIANA SHIPLEY[78]
- TO PETER FRANKLIN
- ON THE PRICE OF CORN, AND MANAGEMENT OF THE POOR[80]
- AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA[81]
- RULES BY WHICH A GREAT EMPIRE MAY BE REDUCED TO A SMALL ONE
- TO WILLIAM FRANKLIN
- PREFACE TO "AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER"[82]
- A PARABLE AGAINST PERSECUTION[83]
- A PARABLE ON BROTHERLY LOVE[84]
- TO WILLIAM STRAHAN[85]
- TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- TO A FRIEND IN ENGLAND[86]
- TO LORD HOWE
- THE SALE OF THE HESSIANS[88]
- MODEL OF A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION[89]
- TO ———————
- TO DAVID HARTLEY[91]
- A DIALOGUE BETWEEN BRITAIN, FRANCE, SPAIN, HOLLAND, SAXONY AND AMERICA [92]
- TO CHARLES DE WEISSENSTEIN[93]
- THE EPHEMERA[95]
- TO RICHARD BACHE
- MORALS OF CHESS[98]
- TO BENJAMIN VAUGHAN
- THE WHISTLE[100]
- THE LORD'S PRAYER
- THE LEVÉE
- PROPOSED NEW VERSION OF THE BIBLE[101]
- TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
- TO MISS GEORGIANA SHIPLEY
- TO RICHARD PRICE
- DIALOGUE BETWEEN FRANKLIN AND THE GOUT
- THE HANDSOME AND DEFORMED LEG[108]
- TO MISS GEORGIANA SHIPLEY[109]
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOSTON INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE[111]
- TO JOHN THORNTON
- TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- TO JONATHAN SHIPLEY
- TO JAMES HUTTON
- TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS[114]
- INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO WOULD REMOVE TO AMERICA[116]
- APOLOGUE[117]
- TO SIR JOSEPH BANKS
- TO MRS. SARAH BACHE[119]
- AN ECONOMICAL PROJECT
- TO SAMUEL MATHER[121]
- TO BENJAMIN VAUGHAN[122]
- TO GEORGE WHATELY[123]
- TO JOHN BARD AND MRS. BARD
- TO JONATHAN SHIPLEY
- TO ————————[127]
- SPEECH IN THE CONVENTION; ON THE SUBJECT OF SALARIES[129]
- MOTION FOR PRAYERS IN THE CONVENTION
- SPEECH IN THE CONVENTION
- TO THE EDITORS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE
- TO REV. JOHN LATHROP[131]
- TO THE EDITOR OF THE FEDERAL GAZETTE
- TO CHARLES CARROLL[132]
- AN ACCOUNT OF THE SUPREMEST COURT OF JUDICATURE IN PENNSYLVANIA, VIZ. THE COURT OF THE PRESS
- AN ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC
- TO DAVID HARTLEY
- TO EZRA STILES[136]
- ON THE SLAVE-TRADE
- REMARKS CONCERNING THE SAVAGES OF NORTH AMERICA[138]
- AN ARABIAN TALE[139]
- A PETITION OF THE LEFT HAND
- SOME GOOD WHIG PRINCIPLES
- THE ART OF PROCURING PLEASANT DREAMS
- NOTES
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