Franklin on FranklinPaul M. Zall University Press of Kentucky, 17.10.2014 - 328 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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... sometimes took me to walk with him, and see Joiners, Bricklayers, Turners, Braziers, &c at their Work, that he might observe my Inclination, & endeavour to fixit on some Trade or other on Land. It has ever since been a Pleasure to me to ...
... sometime, but at last was persuaded and signed the Indentures, when I was yet but 12 Years old. I was to serve as an ... sometimes to borrow a small one, which I was careful to return soon & clean. Often I sat up in my Room reading the ...
... sometimes disputed, and very desirous we were of confuting one another:Which disputacious Turn, by the way, is a very bad Habit, making People often extreamly disagreable in Company, by Contradiction that is necessary to bring it into ...
... sometimes as I thought bore me down more by that than by the Strength of his Reasons. As we parted without settling the Point, & were not to see one another again for some time, I sat down to reduce my Arguments in Writing, which I ...
... sometimes jumbled my Collection of Hints into Confusion, and after some Weeks, endeavour'd to reduce them into the best Order, before I began to form the full Sentences & compleat the Paper. This was to teach me Method in the ...
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April 1722September 1723 | 26 |
25 September1 October 1723 | 31 |
October 1723May 1724 | 36 |
April 25June 1724 | 41 |
JuneNovember 1724 | 49 |
25 December 172421 July 1726 | 59 |
1749 | 156 |
17481753 | 160 |
17431753 | 170 |
1754 | 178 |
1756 | 194 |
17561757 | 205 |
17571762 | 218 |
17571765 | 226 |
23 July11 October 1726 | 69 |
Future 17261727 | 79 |
May 1728September 1730 | 89 |
17291730 | 95 |
17311732 | 103 |
17311754 | 120 |
17361739 | 130 |
17391740 | 138 |
1740s | 146 |
17661770 | 232 |
17701774 | 240 |
17741775 | 250 |
17751785 | 259 |
17851790 | 270 |
Notes | 289 |
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