Franklin and Bache: Envisioning the Enlightened Republic

by Jeffery Alan Smith

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Fostering the "pursuit of happiness" was an avowed purpose of the American Revolution, but what was the phrase to mean in practice? How would the new society being created achieve what Enlightenment egalitarians called the "common good"? In this dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and his grandson Benjamin Franklin Bache, Jeffery A. Smith examines the careers of two of the most prominent journalists to advocate what became known as Jeffersonian republicanism...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195056760

ISBN13:9780195056761

Release Date:July 1990

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"

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19th Century Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Communication & Journalism Historical History Journalism Journalism & Nonfiction

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