{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-in-american-thought-and-culture-1790-1990-memoirs-american-philosophical-society-vol-211-paperback-softback-9781606189276","title":"Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990; Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 211) (Paperback \/ softback) 9781606189276","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBenjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMemoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 211)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNian-Sheng Huang (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781606189276\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 October 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 53 b\u0026amp;w illus\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 1.6 cm, 0.551 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Nian-Sheng Huang seems to have read everything ever written about Benjamin Franklin, from contemporaries to modern authors, and he judiciously assesses the various interpretations that have come about over two centuries…This book is a gem.\" - Cecil B. Currey (American Historical Review) \"[A] splendid introduction for all future Franklinists.\" - Esmond Wright (American Studies) \"An important contribution to the existing scholarship.\" - Stephen H. Brown (Journal of American History) \"[A]mbitious, useful… a valuable piece of scholarship.\" - David M. Larson (PMHB)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Benjamin Franklin's life and legacy have been used, misused, interpreted, and reinterpreted throughout American history and popular culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A teenage runaway whose face later appeared on the one-hundred-dollar bill, as well as the man who penned Poor Richard's Almanac and later helped shape the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin lived a life of wide-ranging dimension, talent, contradiction, and change. A printer, writer, publisher, inventor, scientist, philanthropist, and diplomat, he was a quintessential Renaissance man. Down-to-earth and pragmatic, self-educated and versatile, inquisitive and resourceful, witty and humorous, irreverent and rebellious, Franklin has come to embody emphatically American characteristics. How people have used, misused, interpreted, and reinterpreted his life and legacy provides a fascinating window through which to understand American history. Nian-Sheng Huang studies the historical figure of Franklin, not as an icon on a pedestal, but through the eyes, voices, perceptions, and public activities of ordinary Americans, in popular culture and across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"American Philosophical Society Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52621139280152,"sku":"9781606189276","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/benjamin-franklin-in-american-thought-and-culture-1790-1990-memoirs-american-philosophical-society-vol-211-paperback-softback-9781606189276","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}