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The Printer and the Preacher

Ben Franklin, George Whitefield, and the surprising friendship that invented America

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An edition of The Printer and the Preacher (2015)

The Printer and the Preacher

Ben Franklin, George Whitefield, and the surprising friendship that invented America

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One was a media mogul, the other a celebrity evangelist. The first championed personal responsibility. The second preached salvation by grace. Both worked their way from obscurity, breaking down barriers to become the most famous men in America. Benjamin Franklin and George Whitefield were born on opposite sides of the Atlantic, yet their decades-long friendship propelled them and their ideas to change the fabric of America's values: minimizing class, denomination, and location while magnifying the individual. A biography of either legend would have plenty of dramatic material, from London's theater scene to Philadelphia's halls of government. Yet here Randy Petersen adds something more. He gives context for the events, weaving the two men's stories to reveal how each changed the other -- and how both ultimately affected all of us. - Jacket flap.

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The Printer and the Preacher: Ben Franklin, George Whitefield, and the surprising friendship that invented America
2015, Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
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Table of Contents

The friendship that invented America
England and America
The inn and the candle shop
Casting characters
The city of brotherly love
Hoodwinked
Next stage : England
The play's the thing
The education of George Whitefield
The continuing education of Ben Franklin
Boy, interrupted
The leather aprons and the Bible moths
Conversion
A better place
Doppelgängers
Georgia on my mind
Face to face
Cooling off
The awakeners
Love, mabye
Fireside chats
The arc of friendship
Death and taxes
Special effects
Appendixes.
Before they met
George Whitefield's amazing American tour
Encounters
About the author

Edition Notes

Published in
Nashville, TN

Classifications

Library of Congress
E302.6.F8 P47 2015, E302.5, E302.F82 P48 2015

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
vi, 281 p.
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25949784M
ISBN 10
0718022211
ISBN 13
9780718022211
LCCN
2014957204
OCLC/WorldCat
910568770

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