num_pages: 442
description: Benjamin Franklin is one of the best known and least understood figures in the history of eighteenth-century political thought. Alan Houston clarifies our understanding of his thought by making available a representative selection of his most important political writings. The entire text of the Autobiography is included alongside letters, essays, pamphlets, and manuscript notes that cover political economy, moral psychology, and religious belief and practice, among other topics.
language: English
title: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue
titlecomplete: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue
characters: Benjamin Franklin
genres: Biography, Politics, Memoir, Nonfiction, School, 18th Century, Autobiography, Classics, American History, History
ratings_count: 2410
places: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
publisher: Cambridge University Press