Advertisement

Abstract

Books in Brief

January 19, 1927 issue

add to cart close window

The article presents information about the book "Benjamin Franklin, the First Civilized American," by Phillips Russell. The work is superficial, uncritical, written in journalese that lapses frequently into slang, and fairly dripping with "human interest." One feels, in reading it, that a bright young newspaper man set out to write a good long article about scientist and writer Benjamin Franklin for one of the popular magazines, and after he had started it turned itself into a 323-page book.

See Also:

BENJAMIN Franklin: The First Civilized American (Book); RUSSELL, Phillips; FRANKLIN, Benjamin, 1706-1790; SCIENTISTS; AUTHORS; PERIODICALS

Articles are sold in 'packs,' which are priced as follows:

1 for 2.95
4 for 9.95
10 for 19.95
50 for 34.95
300 for 149.95

Sales of archive individual articles, full issues or article packs are final and no refunds will be issued.

Access for libraries

1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

H.L. Mencken, "An Eminent American," July 11, 1923.

In Your Cart

Your cart is empty.

My Articles

You must be logged in to view your articles.

I don't have a login.

I forgot my user name/password.

Advertisement

Most Read
Most Emailed
Popular Topics

» In the Shadow of Hoover
» Filibustering the Public
» Slide Show: Enemies of Health Reform
» Slide Show: The Far-Right Fringe
» Red Scare, Black Scare
» How the US Funds the Taliban
» The China Debt Dance
» Tell The Nation: Recession Stories
» Slide Show: The Palin Saga
» The Palin Effect
» Gladwell for Dummies
» Round Two: The Coming Battle Over Abortion Funding
» Travels by Taxi
» The Fifty-Year War

Advertisement

» The Beat

Another Helping of FDR Please | Obama should follow the New Deal president's example and make his Thanksgiving Proclamation a call for economic justice.
John Nichols
49 Comments

» Editor's Cut

Filibuster Follies | "The filibuster has become a cancer growing inside the world's greatest deliberative body."
Katrina vanden Heuvel
84 Comments

» The Notion

Bad Black Mothers | For African American women, reproduction has never been an entirely private matter.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
95 Comments

» Act Now!

Coal Country | Stunning film reveals new dimensions to the cost of America's over-reliance on coal.
Peter Rothberg
107 Comments

» The Dreyfuss Report

A Kingdom of Bicycles No Longer | China's ambassador for climate change speaks on the eve of the Copenhagen summit meeting.
Robert Dreyfuss
58 Comments