Franklin in His Own Time : A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates / / edited by Kevin J. Hayes and Isabelle Bour

• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.3092
• Soggetto topico: Printers - United States; Inventors - United States; Scientists - United States; Statesmen - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BourIsabelle HayesKevin J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Pehr Kalm, [Speaking about Natural History, 1748]; Daniel Fisher, [Extracts from the Diary, 1755]; House of Commons, The Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin (1767); Joseph Priestley, [Science, Religion, and Politics in London, 1769, 1795, 1802]; Josiah Quincy, Jr., [Franklin in London, 1774-1775]; John Adams, [Franklin as a Congressman and a Diplomat, 1775-1778]; Abigail Adams, [Franklin in Boston and Paris, 1775 and 1784]; Philip Gibbes, [Two Conversations with Benjamin Franklin, 1777-1778]; Arthur Lee, [Extracts from the Journal, 1777] ; William Greene, [Franklin at Passy, 1778]John Baynes, [Franklin at Passy, 1783]; Andrew Ellicott, [This Venerable Nestor of America, 1785]; Benjamin Rush, [The Wisdom and Experience of Mellow Old Age, 1785-1789, 1805, 1806]; Winthrop Sargent, [My Dinner with Franklin, 1786]; Manasseh Cutler, [A Visit to Franklin Court, 1787]; James Madison, [Franklin during the Constitutional Convention, 1787]; Mary Stevenson Hewson, "Closing Scenes of Dr. Franklin's Life: In a Letter from an Eye-Witness" (1790); John Jones, "Short Account of Dr. Franklin's Last Illness by His Attending Physician" (1790) ; Louis Lefebvre de La Roche, "On Franklin" (1800)Thomas Jefferson, [Anecdotes of Doctor Franklin, 1818 and 1821]; William Temple Franklin, [Anecdotes Relative to Dr. Franklin, 1818]; Robert Aspland, [A Conversation with Franklin's London Friends, 1821]; André Morellet, [Memories of Franklin, 1821]; Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, [A Short Account of Benjamin Franklin, 1825]; Roberts Vaux and a Canadian Numismatist, [The Sawdust Pudding Supper: Two Versions, 1835 and 1875]; Deborah Norris Logan, [Memoir of Dr. George Logan of Stenton, 1839] ; Robert Carr, "Personal Recollections of Benjamin Franklin" (1864)Permissions; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America's first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master ane
• Titolo autorizzato: Franklin in His Own Time
• ISBN: 1-58729-983-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807154203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Writers in Their Own Time