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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... means of impressing me with that Aversion to arbitrary Power that has stuck to me thro ' my whole life . " " This coloring of vin- dictiveness appeared at the close of his outline : " Costs me nothing to be civil to inferiors , a good ...
... means improv'd my Fortune . By one Means or other , I had pick'd up some very ingenious & learned Ac- quaintance , and I had read considerably.14 8 SAILING HOME 23 JULY - 11 OCTOBER 1726 We 68 FRANKLIN ON FRANKLIN.
... Means of Plenty . 4. I resolve to speak Ill of no Man whatever , not even in a matter of Truth , but rather by some Means excuse the Faults I hear charged upon Others , and upon proper Occasions speak all the Good I know of every body.2 ...
Inhalt
Becoming a Journalist | 26 |
Settling at Philadelphia | 36 |
Plotting to Deceive Being Deceived | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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