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" Benjamin Franklin's humor / "
by Paul M. Zall.
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BL
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1033121
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b787491
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Zall, Paul M.
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Benjamin Franklin's humor /\ by Paul M. Zall.
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Lexington :: University Press of Kentucky,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (ix, 186 pages)
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0813134862
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: 0813138175
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: 9780813134864
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: 9780813171869
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: 9781283232913
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0813123712
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9780813123714
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-179) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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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Franklin, Benjamin,1706-1790
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Franklin, Benjamin,1706-1790-- Language.
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Franklin, Benjamin,1706-1790-- Literary style.
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Franklin, Benjamin,1706-1790.
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Franklin, Benjamin,1706-1790
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Franklin, Benjamin.
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American wit and humor.
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Statesmen-- United States, Biography.
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American wit and humor.
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HISTORY-- United States-- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
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HISTORY.
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Humor
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Language and languages.
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Literary style.
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Statesmen.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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973.3/092
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E302.6.F8Z35 2005eb
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