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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... writing such as his bagatelles or his serious writing about electricity or charting the Gulf Stream. But my aim has been to provide a unique perspective generally available only to specialists in such technical works as the genetic text ...
... writer who had practiced the art from childhood? Nevertheless, it would be another three years before death cut off ... writing, “The Way to Wealth,” originally composed for the last edition Franklin prepared of Poor Richard's Almanac ...
... writer. His almanac and newspaper enabled early retirement at age forty-two and allowed him to spend another forty-two years pursuing the science and public service that would prove to be dual paths to honors and recognition. Writing ...
... writing while James held the document pending Franklin's return. The clerks in James's office thus had ample time to take at least one copy which surfaced in the first edition in French. This circumstance also explains the nature of ...
... Writing. Hereby, too, I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old Men, to be talking of themselves and their own past Actions, and I shall indulge it, without being troublesome to others who thro' respect to Age might think ...
Inhalt
Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 17261727 | |
Venturing into Business | |
May 1728September 1730 | |
1749 | |
17481753 | |
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1754 | |
1756 | |
17561757 | |
17571762 | |
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17291730 | |
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17311754 | |
17361739 | |
17391740 | |
1740s | |
17661770 | |
17701774 | |
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Notes | |
Index | |