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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... Town to sell them . The first sold wonderfully , the Event being recent , having made a great Noise . This flatter'd my Vanity . Both ballads were timely . George Worthylake drowned in Boston Harbor with his wife and one daughter on 3 ...
... Town in England , or Country in Europe of which he could not give a very particular Account . He had some Let- ters , & was ingenious , but much of an Unbeliever , & wick- edly undertook to travesty the Bible in doggerel Verse as Cotton ...
... town , and then went to Freshwater church , about a mile nearer the town , but on the other side of the creek . Having stayed here some time it grew dark , and my companions were desirous to be gone , lest those whom we had left ...
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Becoming a Journalist | 26 |
Settling at Philadelphia | 36 |
Plotting to Deceive Being Deceived | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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