The compleated autobiography by Benjamin Franklin ; compiled and edited by Mark Skousen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Contributor:

Skousen, Mark.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 2005

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

United States--Politics and government--To 1775.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 484 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Completed autobiography

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2006.

Summary:

A 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.

Contents:

First mission to England, 1757-62

Return to Philadelphia, 1762-64

Second mission to England, 1764-75

Congress and the Declaration of Independence, 1775-76

Minister to France, 1776-78 : the Treaty of Alliance

Minister to France, 1778-79 : an ambassador's life

Minister to France, 1779-81 : the war continues

Minister to France, 1781-83 : Peace Treaty with England

Minister to France, 1783-85 : my last years in Paris

The creation of a new nation, 1785-87

My final years, 1787

Last will and testament of Benjamin Franklin, 1788-89.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [417]-451) and index.

ISBN:

0895260336 (hc : acid-free paper)

9780895260338

9781596985292 (pbk.)

1596985291 (pbk.)

OCLC:

62408566