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Benjamin Franklin Unmasked: On the Unity of His Moral, Religious, and Political Thought

by Jerry Weinberger

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Removing the many disguises behind the American icon, Weinberger reveals a profound thinker and a ribald humorist, who was skeptical of religion, morality, and political ideals, and whose grasp of human folly tempered his hopes for enlightenment and political reform.

Book News Annotation:

Bobbing and weaving between the opposing views of Franklin as the first embodiment of the self-made American hero and as a shallow and self-serving moralist, Weinberger (political science, Michigan State U.) says his spiritual and intellectual journey was marked by a deeply serious and disturbing encounter with the big questions of life, but that journey led to a skepticism even more radical and thoughtfully grounded than the one scholarship says he rejected.
Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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ISBN:
9780700613960
Author:
Weinberger, Jerry
Publisher:
University Press of Kansas
Subject:
Political
Subject:
Historical - U.S.
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Intellectual life
Subject:
United States - 18th Century
Subject:
Religion
Subject:
United States Politics and government.
Subject:
Biography-Historical
Series:
American Political Thought
Publication Date:
20050931
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
9.30x6.34x1.17 in. 1.51 lbs.
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