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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... 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 Neighbour to converse and always took care to start some ingenious or useful ...
... my self in New York near 300 Miles from home, without the least Recommendation to or Knowledge of any Person in the Place, and with very little Money in my Pocket.1 3 ON THE ROAD TO PHILADELPHIA 25 SEPTEMBER -1 OCTOBER.
... persons.3 In crossing the Bay we met with a Squall that tore our rotten Sails to pieces, prevented our getting into the Kill, and drove us upon Long Island. In our Way a drunken Dutchman, who was a Passenger too, fell overboard; when he ...
... Person of such Note where I had resided, and that I had been so industrious & careful as to equip my self so handsomely in so short a time: therefore no Prospect of an Accommodation between my Brother & me, he gave his Consent to my ...
... Persons, and Discretion did not always accompany Years, nor was Youth always without. And since he will not set you up, says he, I will do it my self. Give me an Inventory of the Things necessary to be had from England, and I will send ...
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Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 17261727 | |
Venturing into Business | |
May 1728September 1730 | |
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1756 | |
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1740s | |
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