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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... Philadelphia 25 September-1 October 1723 4. Settling at Philadelphia October 1723–May 1724 5. A Prodigal's Return to Boston April 25-June 1724 6. Plotting to Deceive & Being Deceived June-November 1724 7. Living in London 25 December ...
Paul M. Zall. 23 July-11 October 1726 9. Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 1726–1727 10. Venturing into Business May 1728–September 1730 11. Entering Business for Himself: 1729–1730 12. Finding Felicity in Philadelphia: 1731–1732 13 ...
... Philadelphia” is a figment of imagination.4 Just as relevant is the way Franklin began the text of his will: “I, Benjamin Franklin, of Philadelphia, printer.”5 As printer, he doubled as writer. His almanac and newspaper enabled early ...
... Philadelphia munching on a roll, carrying two others, one under each arm. The first draft had him merely passing by the door of his future fatherin-law. The interpolation had him seen by Deborah Read, who thought he made a ridiculous ...
... Philadelphia Weekly Mercury. But among them, the Cowrani was uniquely literary. Along with staple local and reprinted items, its columns carried essays and poems. Its writers offered a good school for Franklin, who between 12 April and ...
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Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 17261727 | |
Venturing into Business | |
May 1728September 1730 | |
1749 | |
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1754 | |
1756 | |
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17571762 | |
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17291730 | |
17311732 | |
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1740s | |
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Notes | |
Index | |