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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject: Scholar Professor Gordon Wood - Revolutionary Characters |
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One of The Foremost Scholars Professor Gordon Wood - Revolutionary Characters
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Historian Gordon Wood discusses his new book, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different?, in which he explores the ... all » iconoclastic side of some of the most prominent founding fathers. Wood's Revolutionary Characters offers a series of revealing studies of the men who came to be known as the founding fathers - George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Paine, and Aaron Burr. Wood is professor of history at Brown University. He is one of the foremost scholars on the American Revolution in the country. Program recorded on 5/31/06. (1 hour 9 minutes) |
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: Who's Your Favorite Founding Father? |
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Who's Your Favorite Founding Father?
Speaker: Joseph Ellis
Speaker: Walter Isaacson
Speaker: Richard Brookhiser
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Who is our nation's foremost Founder? Does George Washington trump Alexander Hamilton, or does Benjamin Franklin take all? Find out as ... all » three of the nation's top biographers--Joseph Ellis, Walter Isaacson and Richard Brookhiser--square off in a panel discussion, "Who's Your Favorite Founding Father?"
Joseph Ellis is widely praised for his ability to bring fresh insight to the well-known lives of the leaders of the American Revolution.
Walter Isaacson presents Philadelphia's own Founding Father, Ben Franklin, as an exemplary diplomat, strategist and even media mogul. Isaacson coins Franklin the "Founding Father who winks at us...and seems made of flesh rather than of marble."
Richard Brookhiser's series of biographies about our nation's founders revolutionized the art of biography.
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: PA Books - "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better Wo |
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PA Books - "Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World"
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January 17, 2006 marks the tercentenary of Franklin’s birth, a cause for celebration and fresh consideration of his amazing legacy. Both ... all » ends are beautifully accomplished in Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, edited by Page Talbott. The book combines new scholarship with more than 265 color images, many of which have never been seen before: portraits, manuscripts, drawings, maps, paintings, engravings, and a trove of Franklin’s possessions, from teacups to printing equipment. The book examines the many facets of America’s most extraordinary founding father. Politician, diplomat, scientist, printer, and civic improver, Franklin influenced every aspect of American life, from his own time to the present.
Page Talbott is associate director of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary and chief curator of the exhibition Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World. «
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