The compleated autobiography /
Completed autobiography
by Benjamin Franklin ; compiled and edited by Mark Skousen.
- Washington, DC : Lanham, MD : Regnery Pub. ; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, �2006.
- xxvi, 484 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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.