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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... wish'd to have them first taught Swimming ; and propos'd to gratify me handsomely if I would teach them . They were not yet come to Town and I expected my Stay was uncertain , so I could not undertake it . But I then thought it likely ...
... Wish , " for " a warm House in a country Town , an easy Horse , some good old Authors , ingenious and cheerful Companions , a Pudding on Sundays , with stout Ale , and a Bottle of Burgundy , " each stanza conclud- ing with the refrain ...
... wish ; and I have as much health and cheer- fulness , as can well be expected at my age , now eighty - three . Hitherto this long life has been tolerably happy ; so that , if I were allowed to live it over again , I should make no objec ...
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Becoming a Journalist | 26 |
Settling at Philadelphia | 36 |
Plotting to Deceive Being Deceived | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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