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Benjamin Franklin's Humor

Recreating Benjamin Franklin's words in the way that his contemporaries would have read and understood them, the author chronicles Franklin's use (and abuse) of humor for commercial, diplomatic, and political purposes
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University Press of Kentucky, uuuu
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