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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... Boston April 25-June 1724 6. Plotting to Deceive & Being Deceived June-November 1724 7. Living in London 25 December 1724–21 July 1726 8. Sailing Home 23 July-11 October 1726 9. Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 1726–1727.
... London: 1756–1757 23. Lobbying in London: 1757–1762 24. Skirmishing with Parliament: 1757–1765 25. Coping in a Calm: 1766–1770 26. Agitating for All Americans: 1770–1774 27. Failing to Reconcile: 1774–1775 Forging 28. Independence: 1775 ...
... London, Franklin waited for Captain Thomas Annis's London Hope as the first available packet boat, playing practical jokes and being beguiled by Governor Keith's gratuitous false promises. Sir William, on reading my Father's Letter ...
... London and Philadelphia. But it would be some Months before Annis sail'd so I continu'd working with Keimer, fretting about the Money Collins had of me, and in daily Apprehensions of being call'd upon by Vernon, which however did not ...
... that continued during his Life. The Voyage was otherwise not a pleasant one, as we had bad weather. Packets normally crossed in five weeks, but the London Hope took six or seven weeks. In contrast, Franklin would cross.
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Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 17261727 | |
Venturing into Business | |
May 1728September 1730 | |
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1754 | |
1756 | |
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1740s | |
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Notes | |
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