The The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin : 1757-1790.
Title:
The The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin : 1757-1790.
Author:
Franklin, Benjamin.
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9781596985759
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (381 pages)
Series:
The Compleated Autobiography ; v.2
The Compleated Autobiography
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Benjamin Franklin and His Autobiography: A Summary -- Preface: A Continuation of the Account of My Life -- Chapter 1. First Mission to London, 1757-62 -- Chapter 2. My Return to Philadelphia, 1762-64 -- Chapter 3. Second Mission to England, 1764-75 -- Chapter 4. Congress and the Declaration of Independence, 1775-76 -- Chapter 5. Minister to France, 1776-78: The Treaty of Alliance -- Chapter 6. Minister to France, 1778-79: An Ambassador's Life -- Chapter 7. Minister to France, 1779-81: The War Continues -- Chapter 8. Minister to France, 1781-83: Peace Treaty with England -- Chapter 9. Minister to France, 1783-85: My Last Years in Paris -- Chapter 10. The Creation of a New Nation, 1785-87 -- Chapter 11. My Final Years, 1787. . . -- Appendix: The Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Franklin (17TH of July, 1788) -- Afterword -- Sources -- Important Dates -- Cast of Characters -- About the Compiler and Editor -- About the Compiler and Editor -- Index.
Abstract:
Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time&mdahs;but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life's story in 1757, when he was fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three eventful years, serving as America's advocate in London, Pennsylvania's representative in the Continental Congress, and America's wartime ambassador to France. Here is the rest of the story, in Franklin's own words. One of the most fascinating of our founding fathers, Franklin was a polymath, a practical statesman, and an incomparable cynic and wit. The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin, faithfully compiled and edited from Franklin's papers, reveals why he became a spokesman for American independence as well as his views on the Constitution, such fellow patriots as Adams and Jefferson, on French women, and more. Mark Skousen is a descendant of Benjamin Franklin through Franklin's grandson Louis Bache.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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