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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 theDeclaration 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 wascontinually 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.… (meer)
This is a strange great book by an unusual man that lived in a storm of changes and actively contributed toward civil society, knowledge sharing and advancement. It is too difficult to capture all the nuance that makes Benjamin Franklin, and that his autobiography should be so straight and simple is a kind of magic.
One warning: he was also a product of his time, and his views on women, for example, can be jarring. ( )
What a character. I recommend following this work with a well-written biography, for example Walter Isaacson's, in order to gain deeper insight into the idiosyncrasies of Franklin the man and the ironies of Franklin the autobiographer. All in all, this is a beautiful glimpse of colonial Americanness, of what is often pejoratively called Protestant work ethic (on which so much of our culture and great literature are built), and of civic-minded virtue. ( )
Every American should read, and even non-Americans would profit. Of course, like all autobiographies, needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Not his life as it was, but as he would like others to see it, probably as he himself would like to see it as well. Yet it is the record of one of the great minds of the 18th-century, not only in the colonies, but in the world. Whimsy and moral precept interchange to make an entertaining read. ( )
I don't know why but I get a real kick out of reading Ben Franklin. Not only are you getting opinions and observations straight from the horse's mouth when it comes to the 18th century, you're getting it from an oddly amusing and very pivotal figure in American history. What first appears quite stuffy is actually great entertainment... ( )
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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 theDeclaration 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 wascontinually 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.
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One warning: he was also a product of his time, and his views on women, for example, can be jarring. (