Friday the Thirteenth Collection

Name: Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues
Brand: Benjamin Franklin
SKU: 9781429093552
Price: 12.95 USD
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The history of Friday the Thirteenth is different depending on who you ask. To some, it's a cursed day. To others, it's a day full of luck. Whatever the day means to you, we've collected books where 13 plays a pivotal role in history, for better or worse.

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Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues

Benjamin Franklin

$12.95

The Articles of Confederation

Founding Fathers

$12.95

Stolen

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

$24.95

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues

9781429093552

$12.95

Discover Benjamin Franklin's Blueprint for Living a Moral Life

This pocket-sized hardcover edition contains all thirteen moral virtues as Benjamin Franklin wrote them in his memoirs, first posthumously published in 1791. In the heart of this larger work, today known as The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, he writes of the bold and arduous project of arriving at perfection that he set for himself as a young man. In this task of perfection, young Franklin prepared a catalog of thirteen necessary or desirable virtues that he might strive to acquire by means of habit and daily practice. This edition also includes a chart that Franklin used to track his personal progress.

Founding Fathers

The Articles of Confederation

9781557094605

$12.95

This hardcover gift edition, printed in the USA, contains the preamble, conclusion and all thirteen articles that make up the Articles of Confederation, America’s first governing document.

Passed by the Continental Congress in 1777, and later ratified by the states in 1781, the Articles of Confederation were one of American’s first governing documents. Though not successful in created a strong federal government, it did establish a set of rules for politics and governance that persists today. The document was replaced by the United States Constitution in 1789.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Stolen

9781944038526

$24.95

For the first time in twenty-seven years, The Gardner Museum has authorized a book on the daring theft from the Museum of thirteen priceless works of art, including three Rembrandts and Vermeer’s The Concert, together worth over $500 million. The Museum is offering $10 million for safe return of all the works; the heist remains the largest unsolved theft in history. In the early morning hours of March 18th, 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers talked their way into the museum, and tied up the night guards. They cut some of the paintings from their frames and stacked up others to take, leaving behind a priceless Rembrandt leaning against a chest. It is believed that the thieves “came for the Rembrandts”— but they also stole works by Vermeer, Degas, Manet, and Flinck, as well as a Chinese beaker and a Napoleonic eagle finial. Eighty-one minutes later they were gone. In 1903, Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her extraordinary museum, modeled after a Venetian palazzo, for the enjoyment and education of the public forever. She had amassed an impressive collection including some of the finest masterpieces by Rembrandt, Titian, Raphael, and Botticelli, as well as works by her contemporaries such as Sargent, Whistler, and Degas. The art works included paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, furniture, ceramics, glassware, books, manuscripts and ephemera—all but thirteen of which remain in place today. Stolen gives an inside look at the robbery and explores the impact of the missing works with commentary from the Museum’s Director, Curators, and the Chief Investigator. They describe how the theft, often called a crime against humanity, has affected visitors and disrupted Isabella Stewart Gardner's careful arrangement of the works. The book is highly visual, with original photographs of the stolen objects, as well as how they originally looked placed in the galleries. Stolen, the only book on the theft commissioned by the Gardner Museum, provides the context to a brazen heist that left one of the world’s great museums in search of its lost masterpieces.