The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Franklin, Benjamin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300098587)

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Franklin, Benjamin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

$10.95
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Franklin, Benjamin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

$10.95
Format: Paperback
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The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan

"The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography]."--J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books

"Among the many editions available--read Yale's. Its text is the most reliable (the Franklin papers are at Yale) and its supplementary material is uniformly useful."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

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 definitive 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, eminent Franklin scholar 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.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
ISBN-10: 0300098588
ISBN-13: 9780300098587
Publisher: Yale Nota Bene
Language: English
Published: 04/10/2003
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.96w x 1.01d
By Benjamin Franklin
By Benjamin Franklin
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Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) was Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University. He wrote more than a dozen books including Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America, which won the Bancroft Prize, and American Slavery, American Freedom, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Award. He also is the author of the New York Times best-selling biography Benjamin Franklin. Cited as "one of America's most distinguished historians," Morgan was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2000; in 2006, he received a special Pulitzer Prize "for a creative and deeply influential body of work as an American historian that spans the last half century."

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