Franklin on FranklinPaul M. Zall University Press of Kentucky, 17.10.2014 - 328 Seiten Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography ends in 1758, some thirty years before he died. Those three decades included some of the statesman's greatest triumphs, yet instead of including them in his memoir, Franklin spent the years continually revising his original text. Paul Zall has created a new autobiographical account of Franklin's entire life. By returning to a newly recovered early draft of the Autobiography, he strips away later layers of moralizing to reveal the story as Franklin first wrote it: how a poor boy from Boston used words and hard work to become America's first world-class citizen. To cover Franklin's career as a diplomat and as the only signatory of all three key documents of the American Revolution, Zall interweaves autobiographical comments from Franklin's personal letters and private journals. Franklin emerges as different from the common perception of him as a crafty "Man of Reason." His raw words reveal the bitter infighting among both British and American politicians and his personal struggle with his son's choice of the opposite side in the fight for the future of two countries. Without the veneer of second thoughts, his lifelong struggle to control his temper carries greater poignancy, as do his later years spent nursing his wounded pride. Susceptible to both fallibility and frustration, the honest Franklin depicted in his own words nevertheless remains an uncommon common man, perhaps even more so than previously thought. |
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... respect to spelling and typography such as capitalizing proper nouns, with inconsistencies resulting from copyists of journals or correspondence. I have omitted some passages not focused on Franklin himself and rearranged the sequence ...
... respect to Age might think themselves oblig'd to give me a Hearing, since this may be read or not as any one pleases. And lastly, (I may as well confess it, since my Denial of it will be believ'd by no body) perhaps I shall a good deal ...
... respect and honor at least as easily as he earned fame for science. A closing episode in Thomas Jefferson's own autobiography offers a clue to Franklin's motives in working over what he had written the previous eighteen years. Jefferson ...
... Respect for his Judgment and Advice. He was also much consulted by private Persons about their Affairs & frequently an Arbitrator between contending Parties. At his Table he lik'd to have as often as he could, some sensible Friend or ...
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April 1722September 1723 | 26 |
25 September1 October 1723 | 31 |
October 1723May 1724 | 36 |
April 25June 1724 | 41 |
JuneNovember 1724 | 49 |
25 December 172421 July 1726 | 59 |
1749 | 156 |
17481753 | 160 |
17431753 | 170 |
1754 | 178 |
1756 | 194 |
17561757 | 205 |
17571762 | 218 |
17571765 | 226 |
23 July11 October 1726 | 69 |
Future 17261727 | 79 |
May 1728September 1730 | 89 |
17291730 | 95 |
17311732 | 103 |
17311754 | 120 |
17361739 | 130 |
17391740 | 138 |
1740s | 146 |
17661770 | 232 |
17701774 | 240 |
17741775 | 250 |
17751785 | 259 |
17851790 | 270 |
Notes | 289 |
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