{FURTHER READING ABOUT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN}
Benjamin Franklin is one of the most extensively researched and written about figures in American history. Indeed, the volume of material can be overwhelming, as I discovered in writing this book. For anyone interested in learning more about Franklin, here are some books that I found particularly useful:
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Edmund Morgan, Benjamin Franklin (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002)
Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003)
Esmond Wright, Franklin of Philadelphia (Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986)
Page Talbott, ed., Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005)
Willard Randall, A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984)
Prologue
1 Isaacson, Walter, “Citizen Ben’s Great Virtues,” Time 162, no. 1 (July 7, 2003), www.time.com/time/2003/franklin/bffranklin.html.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 McGee, Micki, Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
5 Salerno, Steve, Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless (New York: Crown, 2005).
6 Cicero, Marcus T., c. 106-43 BC.
7 Isaacson, “Citizen Ben’s Great Virtues.”
8 Dalton, Kathleen, Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), p. 254.
The Preparations
1 Herman, Arthur, How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It (New York: Crown Publishers, 2001), p. 64.
1. Temperance
1 Randall, Willard, A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984), p. 4.
2 “The Temperate Doctor,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 162, no. 12 (June 13, 2000).
3 Ibid. See also Plato, The Republic, chapter 16, 430d.
2. Silence
1 Palatnik, Lori, and Bob Burg, Gossip: Ten Pathways to Eliminate It from Your Life and Transform Your Soul (Deerfield Beach, FL: Simcha Press, 2005).
4. Resolution
1 Dingfelder, Sadie F., “Solutions to Resolution Dilution,” Monitor on Psychology 35, no. 1 (January 2004), www.apa.org/monitor/jan04/solutions.html.
5. Frugality
1 Morgan, Edmund S., Benjamin Franklin (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 22-23.
2 Isaacson, Walter, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), p. 89.
3 Wright, Esmond, Franklin of Philadelphia (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986), p. 47.
4 David Brooks as quoted in Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, p. 90.
6. Industry
1 American Academy of Pediatrics, “Children, Adolescents, and Television,” Pediatrics 107, no. 2 (February 2001), pp. 423-26, http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/2/423.
8. Justice
1 Morgan, Edmund, “The End of His Pragmatism,” in Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, Page Talbott, ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), p. 300.
2 Ibid., p. 302.
9. Moderation
1 Houston, Alan, “The Man of Sense,” Humanities 27, no. 1 (January/February 2006).
2 Ibid.
3 Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.
4 Isaacson, Walter, “What Benjamin Franklin Means to Our Times,” in Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World, p. 2.
11. Tranquillity
1 Moskowitz, Eva, In Therapy We Trust: America’s Obsession with Self-Fulfillment (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001).
2 Ibid., p. 219.
3 Ibid., p. 220.
4 Ibid., p. 224.
5 Ibid., p. 237.
6 The workshop was delivered by Gerry J. Aubie of Chaleur Psychological and Counseling Services Inc. The handout “The Wear and Tear Syndrome of Stress” was adapted from D. A. Tubesing, “Stress Skills Workbook: A Structured Strategy for Helping People Manage Stress More Effectively” (Duluth, MN: Whole Person Associates, 1979), p. 7.
Conclusion
1 Isaacson, “Citizen Ben’s Great Virtues.”
2 Poor Richard’s Almanack 1738.