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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... Service: 1748–1753 19. Experimenting with Electricity: 1743–1753 20. Promoting a United Front: 1754 21. Soldiering on the Frontier: 1756 22. Making a Mission to London: 1756–1757 23. Lobbying in London: 1757–1762 24. Skirmishing with ...
... service that would prove to be dual paths to honors and recognition. Writing offered a third path. The proverbs of “The Way to Wealth,” published in broadside and pamphlet, went through 145 editions in his lifetime, in such different ...
... service and pain of kidney stones and enlarged prostate, which halted progress. A respite during October through May 1789 enabled him to write five more pages. Unsure of his judgment, he had grandson Benny Bache make a copy for friends ...
... service ought to have brought respect and honor at least as easily as he earned fame for science. A closing episode in Thomas Jefferson's own autobiography offers a clue to Franklin's motives in working over what he had written the ...
... service of her mother, Mary Morrill, an indentured servant.3 Finding no work in his trade as a dyer, Josiah Franklin made candles and soap for a living. Perhaps you may like to know something of his Character. Growing Up Bostonian.
Inhalt
Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 17261727 | |
Venturing into Business | |
May 1728September 1730 | |
1749 | |
17481753 | |
17431753 | |
1754 | |
1756 | |
17561757 | |
17571762 | |
17571765 | |
17291730 | |
17311732 | |
17311754 | |
17361739 | |
17391740 | |
1740s | |
17661770 | |
17701774 | |
17741775 | |
17751785 | |
Notes | |
Index | |