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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... Sailing Home 23 July-11 October 1726 69 9. Facing Uncertain Philadelphia Future 1726–1727 79 10. Venturing into Business May 1728–September 1730 89 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Once again I am pleased to acknowledge my debt Contents.
... . In 1818, grandson William Temple Franklin's printing from what he thought the original manuscript resulted in only parts one, two, and three—for reasons related to its history. Sailing for France in 1776, Franklin left Introduction.
Paul M. Zall. lated to its history. Sailing for France in 1776, Franklin left the manuscript with protege Joseph Galloway. Galloway turned Tory and went into exile, leaving it with his wife, Grace Galloway, in whose effects it was found ...
... sail on two types of vessels. The boat of choice on both Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay was the two-masted sloop with “leg of mutton” sails, but rivermen preferred the canoe-like bateau built of planking, which could be handled by ...
... sail'd on being Salt. In the Evening I found myself very feverish, & went in to Bed. But having read that cold Water drank plentifully was good for a Fever,” I followed the Prescription, sweat plentifully most of the Night, my Fever ...
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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 |