LEADER 05004nam 2200721 450 001 9910787039903321 005 20210625003614.0 010 $a0-8122-9141-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812291414 035 $a(CKB)3710000000250608 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001399069 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11951996 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001399069 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11450076 035 $a(PQKB)11441315 035 $a(DE-B1597)451001 035 $a(OCoLC)1002233019 035 $a(OCoLC)893680250 035 $a(OCoLC)948542182 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812291414 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442429 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10947151 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682586 035 $a(OCoLC)932313304 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442429 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000250608 100 $a20141011h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe life of Benjamin Franklin$hVolume 3$iSoldier, scientist, and politician, 1748-1757 /$fJ. A. Leo Lemay 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (769 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 0 $aThe Life of Benjamin Franklin ;$vVolume 3 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a1-322-51304-X 311 0 $a0-8122-4121-5 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tPreface --$t1. The Association, 1747-1748 --$t2. Electricity --$t3. Astronomy, Weather, and the Northwest Passage: Natural Philosopher, 1748-1757 --$t4. Clerk, Councilman, And Magistrate, 1748-1751 --$t5. The Academy And College of Philadelphia --$t6. Colonial Union, Dumping Felons in America, and Assemblyman, 1751 --$t7. The Fundamental Document of the American Revolution, 1751 --$t8. The Pennsylvania Hospital --$t9. Franklin's First Full Assembly, the Money Bill, and Susanna Wright, 1751-1752 --$t10. Insurance: The Philadelphia Contributionship --$t11. Paper Currency, the Coming of War, and a Trip to New England, 1752-1753 --$t12. The Carlisle Treaty, Postmaster General, a Trip to New England, and Assembly Sessions, 1753-1754 --$t13. The Pennsylvania Germans --$t14. Assembly Sessions, the Snake Cartoon, and the Albany Conference, 1754 --$t15. Boston, America and the Empire, and Katy Ray, 1754-1755 --$t16. Libels on the Assembly, Quincy's Mission, and General Braddock, 1755 --$t17. Assembly Crises, Crown Point, Parables, and Glimpses of Deborah, 1755 --$t18. The French and Indians Attack and Pennsylvania Responds, 1755 --$t19. General Franklin on the Frontier, 1755-1756 --$t20. Rival Militias, Colonel Franklin, Virginia, New York, and Frontier Fighting, 1756 --$t21. The Easton Treaty and Assembly Sessions, 1756-1757 --$t22. Franklin in New York and at Sea, 1757 --$t23. Assessing Franklin, Age 42 through 51 --$tAppendices --$tList of Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aDescribed as "a harmonious human multitude," Ben Franklin's life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even today, the epitome of the self-made man. Born into a humble tradesman's family, this adaptable genius rose to become an architect of the world's first democracy, a leading light in Enlightenment science, and a major creator of what has come to be known as the American character. Journalist, musician, politician, scientist, humorist, inventor, civic leader, printer, writer, publisher, businessman, founding father, philosopher-a genius in all fields and a bit of a magician in some. Volume 3 begins in the year 1748, when Franklin was known in Pennsylvania as clerk of the Pennsylvania Assembly and in the Middle Colonies as the printer and editor of Poor Richard's Almanac and the Pennsylvania Gazette, the best-known colonial publications. By the middle of 1757, where this volume leaves off, he had become famous in Pennsylvania as a public-spirited citizen and soldier in the conflicts of the Seven Years' War; well known throughout America as a writer, politician, and the most important theorist and patriot of the American empire; and renowned in the western world as a natural philosopher. This volume tells the story of that transformation. 606 $aStatesmen$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aScientists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aInventors$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aPrinters$zUnited States$vBiography 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 615 0$aStatesmen 615 0$aScientists 615 0$aInventors 615 0$aPrinters 676 $a973.3/092 700 $aLemay$b J. A. Leo$g(Joseph A. Leo),$f1935-2008,$01042303 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787039903321 996 $aThe life of Benjamin Franklin$93697131 997 $aUNINA