{"product_id":"the-americanization-of-benjamin-franklin-9780143035282","title":"The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .\" --The New York Sun\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.\" --The Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic--and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes--comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex--and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin's life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, \u003ci\u003eThe Americanization of Benjamin Franklin \u003c\/i\u003esheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country's idea of itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143035282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e George Washington Book Prize - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2005 pg. 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2005 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2005 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e86433 \/ Americanization of Benjamin Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.9 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 19\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gordon S. Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43705044402357,"sku":"9780143035282","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7c4e2420-e6c7-4a6f-9623-89560570b001.jpg?v=1709653431","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-americanization-of-benjamin-franklin-9780143035282","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}