Humor is sometimes a serious business, especially the humor of Benjamin Franklin, a master at revealing the human condition through comedy. For America'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 Fanklin's uniquely appealing and enduring humor, Zall lovingly samples Franklin's apologues on the necessity of living reasonably even when life's circumstances may seem absurd. - Publisher.
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Benjamin Franklin's Humor
November 30, 2005, University Press of Kentucky
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0813123712 9780813123714
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"At thirteen, Franklin plunged into print with a timely ballad about lighthouse keeper George Worthylake drowning with two daughters in the heavy November surf of Boston Harbor."
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