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Franklin's Thrift: The Lost History of an American Virtue

By David Blankenhorn (Editor), Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (Editor), Sorcha Brophy-Warren (Editor)
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By David Blankenhorn (Editor), Barbara Dafoe Whitehead (Editor), Sorcha Brophy-Warren (Editor)
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Americans today often think of thrift as a negative value—a miserly hoarding of resources and a denial of pleasure. Even more telling, many Americans don’t even think of thrift at all anymore. Franklin’s Thrift challenges this state of mind by recovering the rich history of thrift as a quintessentially American virtue.

The contributors to this volume trace how the idea and practice of thrift have been a vital part of the American vision of economic freedom and social abundance. For Benjam...

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