
Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World
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Similarly, for a man who left so much evidence about his life-as a printer, bookseller, postmaster, inventor, diplomat, politician, scientist, among other professions-one who wrote an autobiography that has become a piece of American national literature and, indeed, a contribution to world culture; the question of who Ben Franklin continues to engage scholars and those who read about his life. His identity seems so stable that we associate it with certain virtues that apply to the way we live our lives, time management, for example. The image of the stable figure of Franklin is applied to create a sense of trust in everything from financial institutions to plumbers. His constant drive to improve and fashion himself reveal, however, a man whose identity was not static and fixed, but was focused on growth, on bettering his understanding of himself and the world he lived in and attempted to influence and improve.
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Acknowledgments
Preface
Lady Joan Reid
Introduction
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more ..."
Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland
Franklin's Masks: A Play upon Possibility
Michael Zuckerman
Benjamin Franklin Unmasked
Jerry Weinberger
Early Modern Imperialism, Traditions of Liberalism, and Franklin's Ends of Empire
Carla Mulford
Benjamin Franklin, the Mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's Failure to Coax Revolutionary Americans Back into the Empire
Neil L. York
Benjamin Franklin, Student of the Holy Roman Empire: His Summer Journey to Germany in 1766 and His Interest in the Empire's Federal Constitution
Jürgen Overhoff
Benjamin Franklin and the Leather Apron Men: the Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia
Simon P. Newman
Recasting Franklin as Printer: A Note on Recent Historiography
Doug Thomas
Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the Division of Sacred and Secular in the Age of Revolutions
Benjamin E. Park
Ben Franklin and Socrates
Lorraine Smith Pangle
From Weimar, with Love: Benjamin Franklin's Influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Self-Fashioning
Paul E. Kerry
Afterword
Benjamin Franklin's Material Presence in a Digital Age and Popular Culture World
Roy E. Goodman
List of Contributors
Index
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