Benjamin Franklin's Humor

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.

Yayınevi

University Press of Kentucky

Yayın tarihi

30 Kasım 2005

Sayfa sayısı

186

Dil

İngilizce

ISBN

9780813123714 · 0813123712

Konular

Humor, Biography, Language, Literary style, American wit and humor, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Statesmen, Quotations