Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

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.

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United States--Politics and government--To 1775.
United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
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