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Franklin on Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin; Paul M Zall
Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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. Franklin on Franklin stands as the first autobiographical account of a great American life. By returning to a newly recovered early draft of the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Franklin on Franklin.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2000
(OCoLC)604110665
Named Person: Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Benjamin Franklin; Paul M Zall
ISBN: 0813122015 9780813122014
OCLC Number: 45248168
Notes: The first twenty-three chapters are based on Zall's recovery of Franklin's first draft of his autobiography, and the last six chapters are derived primarily from Franklin's correspondence and journals.
Description: 315 p. ; 23 cm.
Other Titles: Autobiography
Responsibility: [edited by] Paul M. Zall.

Abstract:

"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. Franklin on Franklin stands as the first autobiographical account of a great American life. By returning to a newly recovered early draft of the Autobiography, author Paul M. Zall strips away later layers of moralizing and revision to reveal the story as Franklin first wrote it: how a poor boy from Boston used hard work and his wits 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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