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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... present at the Discourse. Defoe in his Cruso, his Moll Flanders, Religious Courtship, Family Instructor, & other Pieces, has practis'd it with Success. And Richardson the same in his Pamela, &c. Alluding to influences on his own style ...
... present want a Hand, being lately supply'd with one. But there was another Printer in town lately set up, who perhaps might employ me; if not, I should be welcome to lodge at his House, & he would give me a little Work to do till fuller ...
... present, & there I lodged & dieted. A few Days after Keimer sent for me to print off the Elegy. And now he had got another Pair of Cases, and a Pamphlet to reprint, on which he set me to work. These two Printers I found poorly qualified ...
... present, as a Marriage if it was to take place would be more convenient after my Return, when I should be as I expected set up in my Business. Perhaps too she thought my Expectations not so well founded as I imagined them to be. My ...
... present, and we proceeded on our Voyage. We had a sociable Company in the Cabin, and lived well, having the Addition of all Mr Hamilton's Stores, who had laid in plentifully. In this Passage Mr [Thomas] Denham contracted a Friendship ...
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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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