PORTABLE PROFESSOR™ is a series of exciting and informative lectures recorded by some of today's most renowned university and college professors. Each course introduces listeners to fascinating, and sometimes startling, insights into the intellectual forces that shape our understanding of the world. Each package includes 14 riveting lectures presented by notable professors as well as a book-length course guide.
As the individual perhaps most widely respected by the generation that founded the United States, Benjamin Franklin can fairly be described as the "Founding Godfather" of America. A gifted writer, businessman, diplomat, political mover, scientist, and inventor—not to mention a famous wit and incorrigible womanizer—Franklin towers among historical figures, but his warm humanism and intelligence cast his amazing life into undeniably human relief. In this outstanding series of lectures, award-winning author H.W. Brands explores the impact of the life and remarkable
achievements of this American original.
An expert chronicler of the American experience,
H.W. Brands is Distinguished Professor of History at Texas A&M University. Among other topics, he has written books about the California gold rush, America in the 1890s, President Woodrow Wilson, and the Cold War. His biographies of Teddy Roosevelt, T.R.: The Last Romantic, and Benjamin Franklin, The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), both won widespread critical acclaim and were best-sellers.
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All You Need to Know About Franklin, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: LOLDavid
from Los Angeles, California
This is basically all you want in a lecture series on Benjamin Franklin. Professor H.W. Brands (who has written numerous American history, biographical, and economics books) is an outstanding lecturer and covers all aspects of Franklin’s life in a chronological order which also functions as a history of America in the 18th century. There are tons of great stories and many interesting editorial comments that Brands makes about Benjamin Franklin. You get to see how Franklin changed over time as he moved from Boston to Philadelphia to London to Paris and finally back the United States to assist in the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution. H.W. Brands gives us the full scope of a truly great American whose vast influences have become an integral part of the American character.
- Published:
2004
- Number Of Lectures:
14
- Lecture Time:
33 Mins.
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
B003486
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