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Young Benjamin Franklin : the birth of ingenuity /
"From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world where he fought man...
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The enigmatic seer
- Part one: Beginnings
- His ingenious kin
- Coats of many colors
- Coming to America
- Part two: A Boston boy
- His happy childhood
- Mr. Pemberton's method
- For the love of books
- Part three: The breakout
- The New-England Courant
- The crusade of the Delaware
- Forgetting Boston
- Little Britain
- The papists of Duke Street
- Part four: The weekly grind
- Seaweed, sickness, and the junto
- Citizen Franklin
- Years of success
- The Devil's instrument
- War and Mr. Whitefield
- Part five; The dawn of American science
- A change of life
- Colden, Franklin, and the two frontiers
- A calling found
- Epilogue: An uneasy spirit.
- Prologue: The enigmatic seer
- Part one: Beginnings. His ingenious kin ; Coats of many colors ; Coming to America
- Part two: A Boston boy. His happy childhood ; Mr. Pemberton's method ; For the love of books
- Part three: The breakout. The New-England Courant ; The crusade of the Delaware ; Forgetting Boston ; Little Britain ; The papists of Duke Street
- Part four: The weekly grind. Seaweed, sickness, and the junto ; Citizen Franklin ; Years of success ; The Devil's instrument ; War and Mr. Whitefield
- Part five: The dawn of American science. A change of life ; Colden, Franklin, and the two frontiers ; A calling found
- Epilogue: An uneasy spirit.