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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 ours...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2005.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 186 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813171865 9780813171869 9780813138176 0813138175 128323291X 9781283232913 9780813134864 0813134862 |