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Chapters: Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, John Winthrop, John Singleton Copley, William Phelps, John Leavitt, Richard Dummer, Benjamin Hallowell Carew, Ann Smith Franklin, James Franklin, George Robert Twelves Hewes, Thomas Leavitt, Thomas Hutchinson, John Cotton, Shem Drowne, Peter Faneuil, Samuel Sewall, Robert Keayne, Joseph Dudley, Thomas Brattle, Jonathan Sewall, Edward Shippen, Iii, Richard Clarke, John Wise, William Molineux, Elisha Cooke, Sr., Peter Oliver, Thomas Young, Thomas Savage, Andrew Oliver, Stephen Sewall, Peter Sergeant, Thomas Oliver, Benjamin Wadsworth, Matthew Adams, Thomas Hancock, Bartholomew Green, Elisha Cooke, Jr., William Palfrey, William Prescott, Jr., Samuel Wilde. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 216. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, soldier, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity, and as a political writer and activist, he supported the idea of an American nation. As a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence of the United States possible. Franklin is credited as being foundational to the roots of American values and character, a marriage of the practical and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3986 ... Read more

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Publisher: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN ANC COMPANY.Publication date: 1882Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Title: Moby-Dick and John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark.
Author: Todd Preston
Publication: Melville Society Extracts (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 129Page: 1(7)

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Beautiful, Comprehensive, Incisive, Impressive
A quality production, this.

Two volumes, large format, on heavy paper, in a slipcase. Sturdy bindings: cloth over hardback boards with heavy dustcovers.

The illustrations are the work of Skira Color Studios in Lausanne; every one of the 130 color plates is tipped in (printed separately from the book on glossy stock and then glued in on one edge.) They are beautiful, containing an extraordinary amount of color and texture.

Volume 1, by Prown, takes us up to the Armory Show. Volume 2, by Rose covers the 20th century (up to time of publication.) Indexed with 9 pp bibliographic information.

Table of Contents

The Colonial Period
The Federal Period: Americans at Home and Abroad
The Search for Identity
Art for the People From Art for the Sake of Art to the Ashcan School

The Armory Show and Its Aftermath
The Crisis of the Thirties
The New York School
The Sixties ... Read more