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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... March to Niagara . " Having revolv'd in my Mind the long Line his Army must make in their March , by a very narrow Road to be cut thro ' the Woods & Bushes ; & what I had read of a former Defeat of 1500 French who invaded the Iroquois ...
... march'd many Miles before it began to rain , and it continu'd raining all Day . There were no Habitations on the Road to shelter us , till we arriv'd near Night at the House of a German , and in his Barn we were all huddled together as ...
... March to be voted 2214 pounds Sterling for services since 1757 and then the end of March for the official vote of thanks . But the Proprietaries were enrag'd at Governor Denny for having 22 | 4 FRANKLIN ON FRANKLIN.
Inhalt
Becoming a Journalist | 26 |
Settling at Philadelphia | 36 |
Plotting to Deceive Being Deceived | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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