Franklin on FranklinPaul M. Zall University Press of Kentucky, 2014 M10 17 - 328 páginas 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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... Company as for a publick Ball. 'Tis perhaps only Negligence. To return. I continu'd thus employ'd by my Father's Business for two Years, that is till I was 12Years old, and my Brother John, who was bred to that Business having left my ...
... Company, by Contradiction that is necessary to bring it into Practice, & thence productive of Disgusts & Enmities where perhaps you have occasion for Friendship. I had caught it by reading my Father's Books of Dispute about Religion ...
... Company, & present at the Discourse. Defoe in his Cruso, his Moll Flanders, Religious Courtship, Family Instructor, & other Pieces, has practis'd it with Success. And Richardson the same in his Pamela, &c. Alluding to influences on his ...
... ; in which I bore a Share and about Midnight not having yet seen the City, some of the Company were confident we must have pass'd it, and would row no farther, the others knew not where we were, so we 34 FRANKLIN ON FRANKLIN.
... Company knew it to be Cooper's Creek a little above Philadelphia, where we arriv'd about 8 a Clock, on the Sunday morning, and landed at the Market street Wharff.” 4 SETTLING AT PHILADELPHIA OCTOBER 1723–MAY 1724 Then said to 35 On the ...
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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 |
Selected Bibliography | 299 |
Index | 303 |