The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin

(Part of the New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Series)

by Douglas Anderson

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A fresh look at the intellectual roots of one of the most engaging and multifaceted of America's founders.

Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is "no one's contemporary . . . Blending elements of the fifteenth-century spiritual discipline of Thomas Kempis with the journalistic energy of Daniel Defoe, the urbane reason of Lord Shaftesbury with the scientific initiative of Thomas Edison, Franklin places exceptional...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801867398

ISBN13:9780801867392

Release Date:December 2000

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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