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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... popular writing, “The Way to Wealth,” originally composed for the last edition Franklin prepared of Poor Richard's Almanac. It is a sketch of old Father Abraham preaching industry and thrift to Introduction: Ben Franklin Revising.
Paul M. Zall. sketch of old Father Abraham preaching industry and thrift to a crowd waiting for an auction. His text is not the Bible but proverbs from Poor Richard—who is so impressed that he postpones buying clothes for another year ...
... Father, married young, and brought his Wife with three Children unto New England about 1682. ... where they expected ... Father's Table, who all grew up to be Men & Women, and married. I was the youngest Son & was born in Boston, N ...
... I never knew either my Father or Mother to have any Sickness but that of which they dy'd, he at 89 & she at 85 Years of age. They lie buried together at Boston.4. .. My elder Brothers were all put Apprentices to different Trades.
... Father intending to devote me as the Tithe of his Sons to the Service of the Church. The Old South Church would today be closest to Congregationalist, so to have become a minister Franklin would likely have attended Boston's Free Latin ...
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Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 17261727 | |
Venturing into Business | |
May 1728September 1730 | |
1749 | |
17481753 | |
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1754 | |
1756 | |
17561757 | |
17571762 | |
17571765 | |
17291730 | |
17311732 | |
17311754 | |
17361739 | |
17391740 | |
1740s | |
17661770 | |
17701774 | |
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17751785 | |
Notes | |
Index | |