Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin : The Price of Representative Personality (Paperback)

Introduction: The aspiration to representative personality; 1. Cotton Mather's self; 2. Cotton Mather's work; 3. Decline and remembrance; 4. Pharmaceutical innovation; 5. Cotton Mather's renaissance; 6. Benjamin Franklin's nature; 7. The spark and the dollar: Franklin's public career; 8. The demonstration of character; 9. The death, shame and renown of Benjamin Franklin; 10. A private Franklin; Index.