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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Author
- Benjamin Franklin
- Narrator
- Michael Edwards
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2006
- Run Time
- 5 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanac to signing the Declaration of Independence.His autobiography captures the essence of his spirit, and in it we can see him as a product of the eighteenth-century enlightenment, a type of Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift, and Defoe. In his autobiography, Franklin asks himself, "Who am I, how did I come to be, and why am I a human being as I am?" and he answers with the honesty, wit, and charm that have made this possibly the most famous of all autobiographies.
This isan intimate look at the life of one of American history's most notable figures.
Critics Review
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“Franklin’s is one of the greatest autobiographies in literature, and towers over other autobiographies as Franklin towered over other men.”
William Dean Howells
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“The most widely read autobiography ever written by an American. It has served many Americans as it may have served Franklin—to define what it meant, what it had meant, and what it ought to mean to be an American.”
Edmund S. Morgan, emeritus professor of history, Yale University
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Details
- Author
- Benjamin Franklin
- Narrator
- Michael Edwards
- Duration
- 5 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2006
- ISBN
- 9781481556958
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Biography: historical, political and military, Political leaders and leadership, Biography: science, technology and medicine
Synopsis
Among other things, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, philosopher, inventor, statesman, and not least, a writer. Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry—the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the eighteenth century and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanac to signing the Declaration of Independence.His autobiography captures the essence of his spirit, and in it we can see him as a product of the eighteenth-century enlightenment, a type of Yankee statesman who could use the language of Addison, Steele, Swift, and Defoe. In his autobiography, Franklin asks himself, "Who am I, how did I come to be, and why am I a human being as I am?" and he answers with the honesty, wit, and charm that have made this possibly the most famous of all autobiographies.This isan intimate look at the life of one of American history's most notable figures.
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