Franklin V. True
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 120
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Stealing God's Thunder
Author: Philip Dray
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2005-12-27
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0812968107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Dray captures the genius and ingenuity of Franklin’s scientific thinking and then does something even more fascinating: He shows how science shaped his diplomacy, politics, and Enlightenment philosophy.” –Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Today we think of Benjamin Franklin as a founder of American independence who also dabbled in science. But in Franklin’s day, the era of Enlightenment, long before he was an eminent statesman, he was famous for his revolutionary scientific work. Pulitzer Prize finalist Philip Dray uses the evolution of Franklin’s scientific curiosity and empirical thinking as a metaphor for America’s struggle to establish its fundamental values. He recounts how Franklin unlocked one of the greatest natural mysteries of his day, the seemingly unknowable powers of lightning and electricity. Rich in historical detail and based on numerous primary sources, Stealing God’s Thunder is a fascinating original look at one of our most beloved and complex founding fathers.
Too Much Midnight
Author: Krista Franklin
Publisher: Breakbeat Poets
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781642591309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKrista Franklin draws on Pan African histories, Black Surrealism, Afrofuturism, pop culture, art history, and the historical and present-day micro-to-macro violence inflicted upon Black people and other people of color, working to forge imaginative spaces for radical possibilities and visions of liberation. Featuring 30 poems, 30 artworks, an author statement and an interview,Too Much Midnight chronicles the intersections between art and life, art and writing, the historical and the speculative, cultural and personal identity, the magical and the mundane.
What You Have Heard is True
Author: Carolyn Forché
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0525560378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the author's deep friendship with a mysterious intellectual who introduced her to the culture and people of El Salvador in the 1970s, a tumultuous period in the country's history, inspiring her work as an unlikely activist.
Jazz & Blues Musicians of South Carolina
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781570037436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough detailed interviews with 19 South Carolina musicians, jazz historian and radio host Benjamin Franklin presents an oral history of the tradition and influence of jazz and the blues in the Palmetto State.
The Riddle of Harmless Error
Author: Roger J. Traynor
Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBenjamin Franklin's Last Bet
Author: Michael Meyer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-04-12
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 132856911X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin’s wager was misused, neglected, and contested—but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin’s stake in the “leather-apron” class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.
Franklin's Bad Day
Author: Paulette Bourgeois
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Published: 2023-03-01
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1525312278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFranklin learns to deal with the sadness of a friend moving away, and how to keep in touch in this Franklin Classic Storybook.
Franklin Scandal
Author: Nick Bryant
Publisher: Trine Day
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 774
ISBN-13: 1936296446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places. The scandal originally surfaced during an investigation into Omaha, Nebraska's failed Franklin Federal Credit Union and took the author beyond the Midwest and ultimately to Washington, DC. Implicating businessmen, senators, major media corporations, the CIA, and even the venerable Boys Town organization, this extensively researched report includes firsthand interviews with key witnesses and explores a controversy that has received scant media attention.
The True Benjamin Franklin
Author: Sydney George Fisher
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDecrying the habit of American biographers to mythologize their subjects, Sydney George Fisher sets out to write a book about the True Benjamin Franklin. Of Franklin, he says that the human in him was so interlaced with the divine that the one dragged the other into light. Fisher s book is a unique biography of Benjamin Franklin, written by an opinionated man who grew up directly in the wake of Franklin s influence on American culture.--
