Franklin on FranklinPaul M. Zall University Press of Kentucky, 14.12.2021 - 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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... Country in Europe of which he could not give a very particular Account. He had some Letters, & was ingenious, but much of an Unbeliever, & wickedly undertook to travesty the Bible in doggerel Verse as Cotton had done Virgil. By this ...
... Country it was, and how I lik'd it? I prais'd it much, & the happy Life I led in it; and one asking what kind of Money we had there, I took out a handful of Silver to show them, which was a kind of Show they had not been us'd to, Paper ...
... country villages and noble country houses, booming construction began producing one continued building now”crouded with people.”1 Ralph and I were inseparable Companions. He led me about & show'd me the City. We took Lodgings together ...
... Country School, which he thought himself well qualify'd to undertake, as he wrote an excellent Hand, & was a Master of Arithmetic & Accounts. This however he thought a Business below him, & confident of future better Fortune when he ...
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Inhalt
Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 17261727 | |
Venturing into Business | |
May 1728September 1730 | |
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17481753 | |
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1754 | |
1756 | |
17561757 | |
17571762 | |
17571765 | |
17291730 | |
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17361739 | |
17391740 | |
1740s | |
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Notes | |
Index | |