Franklin and Bache : envisioning the enlightened republic / Jeffery A. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Jeffery Alan, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalists--United States--Biography.

Journalists.

Journalism--United States--History--18th century.

Journalism.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.

United States.

Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 1769-1798.

Bache, Benjamin Franklin.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790--Family.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The intense ideological conflict of the 1790's is illustrated in this study of the education and career of Benjamin Franklin Bache. Trained as a journalist by his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, Bache became the leading polemical Jeffersonian journalist of the period.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. The Pursuit of the Common Good; 2. The Science of Doing Good; 3. Educating the Enlightened Child; 4. Making the Republican Citizen; 5. Newspapers for the New Nation; 6. World Revolution and American Reform; 7. Defending the Democrats; 8. Conclusion: Finding the Future; Notes; A Note on Sources; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-214) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771317-3

1-280-52364-6

0-19-536350-7

1-60129-720-3

OCLC:

252585575