Benjamin Franklin's humor
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
Electronic books
1 online resource (ix, 186 pages)
9780813171869, 9780813138176, 9781283232913, 9780813134864, 0813171865, 0813138175, 128323291X, 0813134862
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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010