Benjamin Franklin (Na)

Jacket Description/Back: One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man: writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. During his long life, he offered advice on attaining wealth, organized public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure his country's survival. Through the words of the elder statesman himself, The Autobiography and Other Writings presents a remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments. Additional writings from Benjamin Franklin's wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who became a legend in his own time. Brief Description: Ever the chronicler and teacher, Franklin wrote an autobiography, ostensibly for his illegitimate son William. Apart from hurried additions when he was in his eighties, his story halts at 1757. Tracing his footsteps centuries later, Franklin's most celebrated biographer completes the last twenty-five years of the autobiography by drawing on Franklin's most personal and insightful letters and writings--even making additions within the interrupted "Autobiography" to give us the expository memoir that Franklin intended. Indeed, as he wrote it. Review Quotes: By judiciously selecting from Ýa¨ vast potpourri of materials, Wright has created a single, manageable work that functions as the penultimate introduction to Franklin in all his guises... Any person seeking to know Franklin the man, the scientist, the printer, and the patriot could not find a better introduction. -- Donald McGraw "Science"Review Quotes: Wright has chosen passages that reveal Franklin's daily life and public career, his wit and wisdom, and Wright gives continuity to them with brief introductions and comments.--Edmund S. Morgan "New York Review of Books "Review Quotes: By judiciously selecting from [a] vast potpourri of materials, Wright has created a single, manageable work that functions as the penultimate introduction to Franklin in all his guises... Any person seeking to know Franklin the man, the scientist, the printer, and the patriot could not find a better introduction.--Donald McGraw "Science "Review Quotes: This book...allows one to become much better acquainted with the enduring Mr. Franklin. And that is a delight.--Keith Henderson "Christian Science Monitor "Review Quotes: Franklin the man, the scientist, the printer, and the patriot could not find a better introduction. Publisher Marketing: Discover Benjamin Franklin -- scientist, inventor, writer, and politician -- through the words of the elder statesman himself and the perceptions of his friends and family. With writings from Franklin's wife and son -- as well as his own essays and letters -- this remarkable book paints an intimate, revealing portrait of a truly extraordinary man. Review Citations:

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 474 (EAN 9781883011536, Hardcover)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 819 (EAN 9781883011536, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 584 (EAN 9781883011536, Hardcover)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 991 (EAN 9781883011536, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Franklin, Benjamin Frankling was a U. S. Statesman, writer and scientist. Contributor Bio:  Wright, Esmond Esmond Wright is Professor of History, Emeritus, University of London.