Summary Of Michael Meyer S Benjamin Franklin S Last Bet

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 36 pages
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Release : 2022-04-25T22:59:00Z
Category : History
ISBN : 9781669390565

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Summary of Michael Meyer's Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Franklin’s death was reported in the Pennsylvania Gazette on April 21, 1790. The notice omitted his biography, and instead printed his physician’s account of Franklin’s last days. #2 Franklin was an early fitness guru, and he dabbled in vegetarianism. He believed that exercise was most effective through intensity rather than duration. He also believed that the common cold was spread by contagion, and that ventilation and air circulation were the solution. #3 Ten months after Franklin’s death, his last will and testament was read aloud in court. It was revealed that he had left money to the Pennsylvania legislature to be employed for making the river Schuylkill navigable. This barely concealed an undercurrent of rectitude. #4 Franklin was a printer who had profited from public service. He refused to be paid when he was appointed as Pennsylvania governor for consecutive one-year terms in 1785. He wanted to show people that it was more advantageous to give than to receive.

Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328569110

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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet by Michael Meyer Pdf

The incredible story of Benjamin Franklin’s parting gift to the working-class people of Boston and Philadelphia—a deathbed wager that captures the Founder’s American Dream and his lessons for our current, conflicted age. Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin’s inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would be a windfall. In Benjamin Franklin’s Last Bet, Michael Meyer traces the evolution of these twin funds as they age alongside America itself, bankrolling woodworkers and silversmiths, trade schools and space races. Over time, Franklin’s wager was misused, neglected, and contested—but never wholly extinguished. With charm and inquisitive flair, Meyer shows how Franklin’s stake in the “leather-apron” class remains in play to this day, and offers an inspiring blueprint for prosperity in our modern era of growing wealth disparity and social divisions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015078261693

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Winthrop D. Jordan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 1604731990

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Slavery and the American South by Winthrop D. Jordan Pdf

Slavery and the American South Edited by Winthrop D. Jordan With essays and commentaries by Roger D. Abrahams, William Dusinberre, Laura F. Edwards, Annette Gordon-Reed, Ariela Gross, Walter Johnson, Norrece T. Jones, Jr., Jan Lewis, James Oakes, Robert Olwell, Peter S. Onuf, and Sterling Stuckey. In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1970s it was the subject of the first Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History held at the University of Mississippi. Since then, scholarly interest in slavery has proliferated ever more widely. In fact, the editor of this retrospective volume states that since the 1970s "the expansion has resulted in a corpus that has a huge number of components--scores, even hundreds, rather than mere dozens." He states that "no such gathering could possibly summarize all the changes of those twenty-five years." Hence, for the Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History in the year 2000, instead of providing historical summary, the participants were invited to formulate thoughts arising from their own special interests and experiences. Each paper was complemented by a learned, penetrating reaction. In this excellent collection of historical essays and commentaries, noted historians develop and sustain an engaging and provocative series of historical arguments about slavery in the American South. The collection of papers includes the following: "Logic and Experience: Thomas Jefferson's Life in the Law" by Annette Gordon-Reed, with commentary by Peter S. Onuf; "The Peculiar Fate of the Bourgeois Critique of Slavery" by James Oakes, with commentary by Walter Johnson; "Reflections on Law, Culture, and Slavery" by Ariela Gross, with commentary by Laura F. Edwards; "Rape in Black and White: Sexual Violence in the Testimony of Enslaved and Free Americans" by Norrece T. Jones, Jr., with commentary by Jan Lewis; "The Long History of a Low Place: Slavery on the South Carolina Coast, 1670-1870" by Robert Olwell, with commentary by William Dusinberre; "Paul Robeson and Richard Wright on the Arts and Slave Culture" by Sterling Stuckey, with commentary by Roger D. Abrahams. Winthrop D. Jordan (deceased) was William F. Winter Professor of History and Professor of African American Studies at the University of Mississippi.

Author : Doug Underwood
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781476635279

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Literary Journalism in British and American Prose by Doug Underwood Pdf

The debate surrounding "fake news" versus "real" news is nothing new. From Jonathan Swift's work as an acerbic, anonymous journal editor-turned-novelist to reporter Mark Twain's hoax stories to Mary Ann Evans' literary reviews written under her pseudonym, George Eliot, famous journalists and literary figures have always mixed fact, imagination and critical commentary to produce memorable works. Contrasting the rival yet complementary traditions of "literary" or "new" journalism in Britain and the U.S., this study explores the credibility of some of the "great" works of English literature.

Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802779120

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The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer Pdf

Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation the country has experienced in that time. For the past two years he has been completely immersed in the ancient city, living on one of its famed hutong in a century-old courtyard home he shares with several families, teaching English at a local elementary school--while all around him "progress" closes in as the neighborhood is methodically destroyed to make way for high-rise buildings, shopping malls, and other symbols of modern, urban life. The city, he shows, has been demolished many times before; however, he writes, "the epitaph for Beijing will read: born 1280, died 2008...what emperors, warlords, Japanese invaders, and Communist planners couldn't eradicate, the market economy can." The Last Days of Old Beijing tells the story of this historic city from the inside out-through the eyes of those whose lives are in the balance: the Widow who takes care of Meyer; his students and fellow teachers, the first-ever description of what goes on in a Chinese public school; the local historian who rallies against the government. The tension of preservation vs. modernization--the question of what, in an ancient civilization, counts as heritage, and what happens when a billion people want to live the way Americans do--suffuse Meyer's story.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Building
ISBN : UOM:39015084677411

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Engineering & Building Record and the Sanitary Engineer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : HARVARD:HB14YZ

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Real Estate Record and Builder's Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1620402882

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In Manchuria by Michael Meyer Pdf

In the tradition of In Patagonia and Great Plains, Michael Meyer's In Manchuria is a scintillating combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research, presenting a unique profile of China's legendary northeast territory. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife's family. Their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights. Once a commune, Wasteland is now a company town, a phenomenon happening across China that Meyer documents for the first time; indeed, not since Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth has anyone brought rural China to life as Meyer has here. Amplifying the story of family and Wasteland, Meyer takes us on a journey across Manchuria's past, a history that explains much about contemporary China--from the fall of the last emperor to Japanese occupation and Communist victory. Through vivid local characters, Meyer illuminates the remnants of the imperial Willow Palisade, Russian and Japanese colonial cities and railways, and the POW camp into which a young American sergeant parachuted to free survivors of the Bataan Death March. In Manchuria is a rich and original chronicle of contemporary China and its people.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015079609049

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The New York Times Book Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter C. Mowrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008946829

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Award Winning Films by Peter C. Mowrey Pdf

Award Winning Films is a movie viewer's guide to the most critically acclaimed films from the silent era to 1990, with each of the over 2700 movies listed having won at least one major cinematic award or festival prize. Each entry provides the film's country of origin, year of completion, length, format, production credits, direction, screenplay, cast, sequels and remakes, alternate titles, awards won, and when available, Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating. Memorable or award-winning features of each film are discussed and an assessment of general critical opinion is given. Award presenters include the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute, the Berlin Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe/Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and 24 others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Books
ISBN : MINN:31951D00115968J

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The New York Times Book Review Index, 1896-1970: Title index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2092 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Indexes
ISBN : UCD:31175032142823

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The New York Times Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1406 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : UIUC:30112061683527

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Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Architecture
ISBN : CUB:U183044349860

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The American Architect and Building News by Anonim Pdf