Franklin on FranklinUniversity Press of Kentucky, 2000 - 315 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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... Governor enquir'd for me , came up , & with a Polite- ness I had been quite unus'd to , made me many Compli- ments , desired to be acquainted with me , blam'd me kindly for not having made myself known to him when I first came to the ...
... Governor granting a Sum of Sixty Thousand Pounds for the King's Use , which the Governor refus'd in Compliance with his Instructions . I had agreed with Captain [ William ] Morris of the Packet at New York for my Passage , and my Stores ...
... Governor's Request , for his and their Defence , we having no Militia . Near 1000 of the Citizens accordingly took Arms ; Governor [ John ] Penn made my House for some time his Head Quarters , and did every thing by my Advice , so that ...
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Becoming a Journalist | 26 |
Settling at Philadelphia | 36 |
Plotting to Deceive Being Deceived | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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