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Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World.
Written initially to guide his son, Franklin's autobiography is a lively, spellbinding account of his unique and eventful life. Stylistically his best work, it has become a classic in world literature, one to inspire and delight readers everywhere.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin
Edited by Peter Conn
Contributions by Amy Gutmann
192 Pages , 6.00 x 9.00 in
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- Published: July 2005
- 9780812200119
- Published: November 2010
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Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity." The result is a classic of American literature. On the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the Autobiography for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together. For this occasion the University of Pennsylvania Press will publish a special edition of Franklin's Autobiography , including a new preface by University president Amy Gutmann and an introduction by distinguished scholar Peter Conn. The volume will also include four short essays by noted Penn professors as well as a chronology of Franklin's life and the text of Franklin's Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania , a document resulting in the establishment of an institution of higher education that ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania. No area of human endeavor escaped Franklin's keen attentions. His ideas and values, as Amy Gutmann notes in her remarks, have shaped the modern University of Pennsylvania profoundly, "more profoundly than have the founders of any other major university of college in the United States." Franklin believed that he had been born too soon. Readers will recognize that his spirit lives on at Penn today. Essay contributors: Richard R. Beeman, Paul Guyer, Michael Weisberg, and Michael Zuckerman.
Preface: The Power of Values, by Amy Gutmann Introduction: Benjamin Franklin and the American Imagination, by Peter Conn PART I. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Nathan G. Goodman PART II. CRITICAL ESSAYS Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment, by Richard R. Beeman Freedom of Reason, by Paul Guyer An Inclination Joined with an Ability to Serve, by Michael Zuckerman The Key to Electricity, by Michael Weisberg APPENDICES Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, by Benjamin Franklin A Chronology of Franklin's Life, compiled by Mark Frazier Lloyd Contributors
Peter Conn is Andrea Mitchell Term Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917, Literature in America, and Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, was included among the five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle award in biography, and received the Athenaeum Award. Amy Gutmann is President of the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent books are Identity in Democracy: Why Deliberative Democracy? with Dennis Thompson, and Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, with Anthony Appiah, which won the Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association, the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award, and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award.
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John was bred a dyer, I believe of woolens. Benjamin was bred a silk dyer, serving an apprenticeship at London. - 3 - He was an ingenious man. I remember him well, for when I was a boy he came over to my father in Boston, and lived in the house with us some years. He lived to a great age. His grandson, Samuel Franklin, now lives in Boston.
Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, 1923, Houghton Mifflin company edition, ... Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. ...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, ... Lawrence wrote a notable invective in 1923 against the "middle-sized, sturdy, ...
the interesting, human, and vividly told story of one of the wisest and most useful lives in our own history, and perhaps in any history. In Franklin's Autobiography is offered not so much a ready-made formula for success, as the companionship of a real flesh and blood man of extraordinary mind and quality, whose daily walk and conversation will help us to meet our own difficulties, much as ...
Franklin composed it in fits and spurts between 1771 and 1790, and never had a chance to complete it, let alone publish it, in his lifetime. It was first published as a poor French translation of an unrevised edition of the manuscript, and then as a heavily-editorialized and inaccurate English edition by Franklin's son, William Temple Franklin.
The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan"The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography]."—J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books"Among the many editions available-read Yale's. Its text is the most reliable (the Franklin papers are at Yale) and its supplementary material is uniformly useful ...
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : with a continuation drawn from his letters : edited for ... NUC pre-1956 NF 0339205 Also available in digital form. LC copy 1 missing in inventory 2006-01-23 NUC pre-1956 gives DLC call number as E302.6.F83F84
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Applewood Books, Oct 24, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 276 pages. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a torturous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most ...
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On the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the Autobiography for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together.
Summary. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin is a historical account written during the late 18th century. The text chronicles the life and experiences of Benjamin Franklin, one of America's founding fathers, as he recounts his journey from modest beginnings in Boston to becoming a prominent printer, inventor, and ...
Hardcover - International Collectors Library: American Headquarters: Garden City, N.Y. - 1923 - Condition: As New - International Collectors Library: American Headquarters: Garden City, N.Y, 1923. Condition: As New. Stamped in 24k gold, top edges genuine gold. Seller Inventory #AQE-00032 - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790. Publication date 1890 Topics Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Statesmen Publisher New York : Mershon Co. ... Work published prior to 1923. External-identifier urn:oclc:record:1039992316 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier autobiographyofb00fran_4 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0bw2g641 ...
A nice unabridged edition with more than 40 illustrations, 10 of them full page, and the cover from the 1923 edition. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790. Franklin appears to have called the work his Memoirs.
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