Kevin J. (Hrsg.) Hayes

Franklin in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associ

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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 anecdotist whose vast store of knowledge complemented his conversational skills. In… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Bour, Isabelle (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-58729-982-7
EAN: 9781587299827
Produktnummer: 10553705
Verlag: Univ Of Iowa Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 196 S.
Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 318 g
Gewicht: 318

Über den Autor

Kevin J. Hayes is a professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma and author of several books, including The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson and The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas. With Edwin Wolf 2d, he coauthored The Library of Benjamin Franklin.Isabelle Bour is a professor of eighteenth-century English studies at the Sorbonne. She is the editor of J. G. Lockhart'sThe History of Matthew Wald and M. de La Coste's Voyage philosophique d'Angleterre and co-translator of Emilie du Chatelet's Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings, among others.