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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... Thing most like living one's Life over again, seems to be a Recollection of that Life, and to make that Recollection as durable as possible, the putting it down in Writing. Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old ...
... thing immediately follow'd. Most People dislike Vanity in others whatever Share they have of it themselves, but I give it fair Quarter wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of Good to the Possessor & to ...
... Things I might have bought with the rest of the Money, & laught at me so much for my Folly that I cry'd with Vexation ... thing, I said to my self, “Do not give too much for the Whistle;” and I sav'd my Money.13 When Boston numbered only ...
... Things of Socrates, wherein there are many Instances of the same Method. I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropt my Contradiction, and put on the humble Enquirer & Doubter. And being then a real Doubter in many Points of our Religious ...
... thing that may possibly be disputed, the Words, “Certainly, undoubtedly,” or any others that give the Air of Positiveness to an Opinion; but rather say, “I conceive,” or “I apprehend a Thing to be so or so,” “It appears to me,” or “I ...
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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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1740s | |
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Notes | |
Index | |