Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary FriendsBasic Books, 2007 M01 9 - 416 pages Ben Franklin was at the heart of the Enlightenment. He drew to him some of the greatest minds of that time, people who remain among the most intriguing in history — Americans, Englishmen, and Frenchmen whose ideas continue to shape how we live. Through engaging anecdotes and short histories, Atlantic Cousins includes intimate portraits of Franklin and Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, Voltaire, the Marquis de Condorcet, Georges-Jacques Danton, Camille Desmoulins — and their arch-enemy, William Cobbett, an unrelenting monarchist and anglophile. Aside from the colorful personalities, author Jack Fruchtman documents developments from Thomas Paine's smokeless candles to the founding of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia; the debate that led to the Declaration of Independence; the abolitionist movement both in America and abroad; and Paine's Rights of Man. Atlantic Cousins contains numerous illustrations and maps that complement the material, and shows just how Ben Franklin and his circle of friends shaped this unique and remarkable period in history. |
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... thing in Britain as a con- stitution : " If you ask an Englishman what he means when he speaks of the English constitution , he is unable to give you any answer . The truth is , the English have no fixed constitution . " Surely , the ...
... thing in Britain as a con- stitution : " If you ask an Englishman what he means when he speaks of the English constitution , he is unable to give you any answer . The truth is , the English have no fixed constitution . " Surely , the ...
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... thing for the early modern era . For one thing , in England , statistics on mortality rates were collected haphazardly , and the so - called statisticians of the day made numerous errors in trying to determine such facts as the accurate ...
... thing for the early modern era . For one thing , in England , statistics on mortality rates were collected haphazardly , and the so - called statisticians of the day made numerous errors in trying to determine such facts as the accurate ...
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... things differ- ently ; he believed the supreme duty of the Académie was to keep science firmly in the hands of the ... thing for science : making scientific knowledge a popularity contest when it should be based on the findings of the ...
... things differ- ently ; he believed the supreme duty of the Académie was to keep science firmly in the hands of the ... thing for science : making scientific knowledge a popularity contest when it should be based on the findings of the ...
Contents
Prologue Franklins Atlantic Cousins | 1 |
Marat and Mesmer Charlatans or Misunderstood | 197 |
Condorcet Revolution and la République | 233 |
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