Benjamin Franklin's humor
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| Sprache: | English |
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University Press of Kentucky
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index Silence Dogood, 1722-1723 -- Paragraphs in Philadelphia, 1729-1735 -- Philadelphia's Poor Richard, 1733-1748 -- Philadelphia comic relief, 1748-1757 -- Making friends overseas, 1757-1774 -- Losing London, 1773-1776 -- Seducing Paris, 1776-1782 -- Comic release, 1783-1785 -- Revising past and future, 1786-1790 Humor is sometimes a serious business, especially the humor of Benjamin Franklin, a master at revealing the human condition through comedy. For the country's bicentennial, Reader's Digest named Franklin "Man of the Year" for embodying the characteristics we admire most about ourselves as Americans-humor, irony, energy, and fresh insight. Recreating Franklin's words in the way that his contemporaries would have read and understood them, Paul M. Zall chronicles Franklin's use (and abuse) of humor for commercial, diplomatic, and political purposes. Dedicated to the uniquely appealing and endurin |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 186 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0813123712 0813138175 0813171865 9780813123714 9780813138176 9780813171869 |