United States History - 18th Century - American Revolution, United States History - Colonial Era, U.S. - Political Biography, Historical Biography - United States, U.S. Politics - History, Artists, Architects & Photographers - Biography, United States His
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Overview
Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanack to signing the Declaration of Independence. In his own lifetime he knew prominence not only in America but in Britain and France as well. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women. Nearly sixty years separate the earliest writings from the latest, an interval during which Franklin was continually balancing between the puritan values of his upbringing and the modern American world to which his career served as prologue. This edition provides a new text of the Autobiography, established with close reference to Franklin's original manuscript. It also includes a new transcription of the 1726 journal, and several pieces which have recently been identified as Franklin's own work.One of the most powerful and controversial writers of his time, his own words on his greatest creation -- his own persona.
Book Details
Published
March 26, 2013
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781482752236