The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin

by Douglas Anderson

Book Overview

Benjamin Franklin, writes Douglas Anderson in his preface, is "no one's contemporary... Blending elements of the fifteenth-century spiritual discipline of Thomas a Kempis with the journalistic energy of Daniel Defoe, the urbane reason of Lord Shaftesbury with the scientific initiative of Thomas Edison, Franklin places exceptional demands on the historical imagination of his readers--demands that are inevitably slighted by writers who emphasize only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801854458
• ISBN13: 9780801854453
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"