The compleated autobiography / by Benjamin Franklin ; compiled and edited by Mark Skousen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, DC : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, MD : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, �2006.Description: xxvi, 484 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0895260336
  • 9780895260338
  • 9781596985292
  • 1596985291
Other title:
  • Completed autobiography
Uniform titles:
  • Works. Selections. 2005
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E 302 .F82 2006
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-451) and index.

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.

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.

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