The Cambridge companion to Benjamin Franklin
By: edited by Carla Mulford.
Contributors: Mulford, Carla, 1955-
Series: Cambridge companions to American studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521871341
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 -- Political and social views; Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 -- Knowledge and learning; Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 -- Influence; Statesmen -- United States -- Biography; Scientists -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Companion to Benjamin Franklin.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Benjamin Franklin's library / Kevin J. Hayes; title: The art of virtue / Douglas Anderson; title: Franklin's satiric vein / Paul E. Kerry; title: Franklin in the republic of letters / David S. Shields; title: Benjamin Franklin's natural philosophy / Joyce E. Chaplin; title: Franklin and the Enlightenment / Frank Kelleter; title: Franklin and the question of religion / Kerry Walters; title: The pragmatist in Franklin / James Campbell; title: Franklin on national character and the Great Seal of the United States / Lester C. Olson; title: Protestant ethic or conspicuous consumption? : Benjamin Franklin and the Gilded Age / Wilson J. Moses; title: Benjamin Franklin and the American dream / Nian-Sheng Huang and Carla Mulford; title: Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, then and now / Stephen Carl Arch.