John P. Franklin: The Man, The Myth, The…Reality?

Caweltis 1965 book apostles of the self-made man, he listed benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson, ralph waldo emerson, horatio alger, and john dewey as individuals who either played a major role in shaping the success ideal or were associate with it in the public mind. In apostles of the self-made man (1965), his history of the bootstrap myth, john g. Cawelti suggests that books like thayers and seymours constituted a literature of reassurance rather. Franklins account of the unpromising figure he cut on his first morning in his adopted city is one of the most famous passages in american literature, and an ur-text in the mythology of the self-made man. This lesson challenges students to examine the birth of benjamin franklins legend by comparing portraits and sculptures that were created both during his life and after his death.

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