id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ghks2yna2bg4dhhcfrqnfdii5y SIMON P. NEWMAN Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia 2009 16 .pdf application/pdf 6877 359 61 Benjamin Franklin and the Leather-Apron Men: The Politics of Class in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia explores Franklin's construction and presentation of his pride in his working-class origins and (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006); idem, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's life and character, his enduring working-class identity has been Morgan, Benjamin Franklin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002); Gordon S. Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (New York: Penguin, 2004); David Waldstreicher, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (New thousands of middling Americans,'' during his own lifetime Franklin appeared as a champion of the leather-apron men who included both working Benjamin Franklin and His New American Order (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), of Franklin's autobiography chronicled his working life as an apprentice, a Increasing wealth and genteel status did not prevent Franklin from persisting in identifying with working craftsmen, and Philadelphia's artisans and 48 Wood, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, 10. ./cache/work_ghks2yna2bg4dhhcfrqnfdii5y.pdf ./txt/work_ghks2yna2bg4dhhcfrqnfdii5y.txt