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The compleated autobiography by Benjamin Franklin ; compiled and edited by Mark Skousen
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 302 .F82 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- 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
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