Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinThe Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Mark SkousenPublisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 0895260336
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
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.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1623957915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of America's most famous memoirs. In this text, Ben Franklin shares his life story and details his attempts to build a life of good habits and virtues. His plan for self-improvement was one of the first "self help" books and his role as a founder of the United States is given a personal perspective. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinThe True Benjamin Franklin
Author: Sydney George FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Decrying the habit of American biographers to mythologize their subjects, Sydney George Fisher sets out to write a book about the True Benjamin Franklin. Of Franklin, he says that the human in him was so interlaced with the divine that the one dragged the other into light. Fisher s book is a unique biography of Benjamin Franklin, written by an opinionated man who grew up directly in the wake of Franklin s influence on American culture.--
The Works of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin
Author: Carl Van DorenPublisher: New York : The Viking Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 845
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin
Author: Thomas S. KiddPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin’s faith Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the “thorough deist” who emerges in his autobiography. As Thomas Kidd reveals, deist writers influenced Franklin’s beliefs, to be sure, but devout Christians in his life—including George Whitefield, the era’s greatest evangelical preacher; his parents; and his beloved sister Jane—kept him tethered to the Calvinist creed of his Puritan upbringing. Based on rigorous research into Franklin’s voluminous correspondence, essays, and almanacs, this fresh assessment of a well-known figure unpacks the contradictions and conundrums faith presented in Franklin’s life.
The First American
Author: H. W. BrandsPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307754944
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man” (The Washington Post) by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War. "The authoritative Franklin biography for our time.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin's "life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands" (The Dallas Morning News). From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America’s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world’s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin’s greatness and humanity, The First American is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: ANDREW JACKSON, THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN.
The Writings of Benjamin Franklin: 1783-1788
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
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