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Author: Mark Skousen
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 0895260336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lifelong scholar of Benjamin Franklin's life completes the unfinished "Autobiography" with information on Franklin's attitudes about such topics as the Constitutional Convention, slavery, and Thomas Jefferson.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-07-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1596985755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Published: 2015-03-15
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1623957915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of America's most famous memoirs. In this text, Ben Franklin shares his life story and details his attempts to build a life of good habits and virtues. His plan for self-improvement was one of the first "self help" books and his role as a founder of the United States is given a personal perspective. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 840
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects Benjamin Franklin's best-known writings, both personal and public, arranged by period and place, and includes scholarly notes.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-08-05
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0451469887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and insightful compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography and other essays which offers an in-depth look into the life of America’s most fascinating Founding Father. Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. During his long life, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure his country’s survival. Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments. Additional writings from Benjamin Franklin’s wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who became a legend in his own time. Edited by L. Jesse Lemich With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson and an Afterword by Carla Mulford
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-01-03
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 1440626928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin’s major writings—essays, journalism, letters, political tracts, scientific observations, proposals for the improvement of civic and personal life, literary bagatelles, and private musings. The selections are reprinted in their entirety and organized chronologically within six sections that represent the full range of Franklin’s temperament. The result is a zestful read for Franklin scholars and anyone wanting to know and enjoy this American icon. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
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Published: 1809
Total Pages: 430
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 484
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Merrill Maguire Skaggs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780822002161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study guide for Benjamin Franklin's autobiography.
Author: Douglas Anderson
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1421406136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBenjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir—a model of the genre—in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places. Douglas Anderson’s study of this work reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative and radical as the inventions and political thought for which he is renowned. Franklin never completed his autobiography, choosing instead to immerse his reader in the formal and textual atmosphere of a deliberately “unfinished” life. Taking this decision on Franklin’s part as a starting point, Anderson treats the memoir as a subtle and rewarding reading lesson, independent of the famous life that it dramatizes but closely linked to the work of predecessors and successors like John Bunyan and Alexis de Tocqueville, whose books help illuminate Franklin’s complex imagination. Anderson shows that Franklin’s incomplete story exploits the disorderly and disruptive state of a lived life, as opposed to striving for the meticulous finish of standard memoirs, biographies, and histories. In presenting Franklin’s autobiography as an exemplary formal experiment in an era that its author once called the Age of Experiments, The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin veers away from the familiar practices of traditional biographers, viewing history through the lens of literary imagination rather than the other way around. Anderson’s carefully considered work makes a persuasive case for revisiting this celebrated book with a keener appreciation for the subtlety and beauty of Franklin’s performance.
