The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : Second Edition / Loch K. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Loch K., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Franklin, Benjamin.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A classic of eighteenth-century American history and literature, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William, Franklin's Autobiography offers his reflections on philosophy and religion, politics, war, education, material success, and the status of women.Prepared by the editors of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, this edition is drawn with scrupulous care from the original manuscript in Franklin's handwriting now in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. The introduction by Leonard W. Labaree places the autobiography in literary and historical contexts. In a new foreword, Edmund S. Morgan writes about Franklin's dual allegiance as an American and a subject of an English king-and his emergence as a leader of the American Revolution. This edition also includes biographical notes, a chronology of Franklin's life, and an updated bibliography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword to the Second Edition

Editorial Note

Introduction

The Autobiography

Franklin's Outline

Biographical Notes

Franklin Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300159554

0300159552

OCLC:

1024044236