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Benjamin Franklin - The First Civilized American (Paperback)
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Benjamin Franklin - The First Civilized American (Paperback)
Series: Cosimo Classics Biography
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[A]t the age of 24, Benjamin becomes the head of his own business,
without having saved any money, without having worked unusually
hard, without having omitted any of the pleasures beloved by
imaginative youth, and without having lived up to any of the maxims
for which he is later to become renowned. -from "Chapter XI:
Philadelphia's Youngest Master-Printer" It's with equal measures of
unstinting respect and gentle reproach that renowned biographer
Phillips Russell tackles the life of one of the legendary figures
of colonial America and the Revolution, a figure he deems
"mirthful, generous, open-minded, learned, tolerant, and
humor-loving...the first American man of the world." A delight to
read, this is a cheerful, warmly admiring recounting of the story
of the printer and the politician, the debaucher and the diplomat,
a man whose "chief weakness" was a lack of aptitude for
mathematics, who was "not above looking to the church to do police
duty over his womenfolk," who was "midwife at the birth of the
world's first great republic." Profusely illustrated and bursting
with the author's enthusiasm as well as its subject's abundant
personality, this is a classic of American historical literature.
American journalist CHARLES PHILLIPS RUSSELL (1883-1974) was a
newspaper editor and professor of English and journalism at the
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is the author of
numerous books, including biographies of Thomas Jefferson, John
Paul Jones, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William the Conqueror.
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