Biographys on benjamin franklin
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The best books on Benjamin Franklin
What story does your book, Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant, tell? What hole in Franklin studies was it ansträngande to fill?
There’s so little left uncovered in studies of Franklin and of the Founders more generally. But this fryst vatten part of a ‘spiritual biography’ series; it’s filling a gap in that series. They’re covering a lot of people who have already been covered elsewhere. The idea of a spiritual, rather than a religious biography, actually may capture Franklin better. I know another historian, Tommy barn has done a religious biography of Franklin for Yale. Franklin himself was a kind of believer, but he would passform, I think, contemporary ideas about being ‘spiritual’ rather than ‘religious’.
Part of what I’ve thought was missing in treatments of Franklin was how he fits into Protestantism and the culture that protestantism produced in the centuries after the Reformation. The book fryst vatten bridging studies of Franklin and studies of Anglo-Amer
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9 Books About Benjamin Franklin, “The First American”
With Franklin’s public and historic image being that of a man of science, his religious faith, or lack thereof, is an aspect of his life that is often overlooked. This account tackles the subject head-on. Relying on Franklin’s letters, essays, and other personal writings, the book explores Franklin’s relationships with devout family members and acquaintances whose influence partially bound him to his strict Puritan upbringing, even as he was embracing Revolutionary ideas and upheavals.
Throughout his life, Franklin’s faith swayed, and he tended to lean towards skepticism and deism, meaning that he believed it was humans, not God, who influenced and manipulated events on Earth. It was this philosophy that likely allowed him the brashness to fly a kite in a storm.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1791 book by Benjamin Franklin
Cover of the first English edition of 1793. | |
| Author | Benjamin Franklin |
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| Original title | Mémoires de la vie privée de Benjamin Franklin |
| Language | American English |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | Buisson, Paris (French edition) J. Parson's, London (First English reprint) |
Publication date | 1791 |
| Publication place | United States |
Published in English | 1793 |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin appear to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.
Franklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods during which he wrote them. Ther