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Benjamin Franklin: The Original American (Portable Professor Series) by H. W. Brands

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(Compact Disc - Unabridged, 8 CD's, 7.88 hrs.)

  • Pub. Date: May 2004

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    • Pub. Date: May 2004
    • Publisher: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: Compact Disc

    Synopsis

    PORTABLE PROFESSOR™ is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.

    As the individual perhaps most widely respected by the generation that founded the United States, Benjamin Franklin can fairly be described as the "Founding Godfather" of America. A gifted writer, businessman, diplomat, political mover, scientist, and inventor—not to mention a famous wit and incorrigible womanizer—Franklin towers among historical figures, but his warm humanism and intelligence cast his amazing life into undeniably human relief. In this outstanding series of lectures, award-winning author H.W. Brands explores the impact of the life and remarkable achievements of this American original.

    COURSE LECTURES

    1. Out of Boston: 1706-1723
    2. Among Friends: 1723-1726
    3. Poor Richard: 1726-1733
    4. The Art of Virtue: 1728-1737
    5. Practical Citizenship: 1739-1747
    6. Stealing Lightning From the Heavens: 1748-1752
    7. Join or Die: 1752-1757
    8. A Personal Stamp Act Crisis: 1757-1765
    9. The Cockpit: 1765-1774
    10. The Most Dangerous Man in America: 1774-1776
    11. Paris by Storm: 1776-1778
    12. To Be Seventy Again: 1778-1783
    13. Eldest Statesman: 1783-1787
    14. "In Peach" with Them All: 1787-1790

    An expert chronicler of the American experience, H.W. Brands is Distinguished Professor of History at Texas A&M University. Among other topics, he has written books about the California gold rush, America in the 1890s, President Woodrow Wilson, and the Cold War. His biographies of Teddy Roosevelt, T.R.: The Last Romantic, and Benjamin Franklin, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), both won widespread critical acclaim and were best-sellers.

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    A Remarkable Personby Anonymous

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    March 09, 2007: Benjamin Franklin was a remarkable man and Professor Brands brings him to life in this well thought out and stimulating course. The course guide is chock full of additional information and the professor's own biography of Franklin is very thorough. The course follows Ben Franklin from his birth in Boston to his death in Philadelphia with the theme that Franklin's identity outgrew each place he lived during his long and eventful life. Franklin's mind was both subtle and far-ranging, but his personality quite extraordinary. As Brands points out, it is rare that someone is a revolutionary at age 70. I'd suggest you order the biography by Brands along with the course to make your exploration of this remarkable man deep and satisfying.

    Good history materialby Anonymous

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    September 14, 2004: I'm not a history buff, but I found this to be an interesting course. It's hard to condense a life as important as Benjamin Franklin, but the course offers some interesting facts about his world and about how America came to be.


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