The compleated autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: compiled and edited by Mark Skousen.
Contributors: Skousen, Mark.
Publisher: Regnery Pub.; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Statesmen -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Completed autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: First mission to England, 1757-1762; title: Return to Philadelphia, 1762-1764; title: Second mission to England, 1764-1775; title: Congress and the Declaration of Independence, 1775-1776; title: Minister to France, 1776-78 : the Treaty of Alliance; title: Minister to France, 1778-79 : an ambassador's life; title: Minister to France, 1779-81 : peace treaty with England; title: Minister to France, 1781-83 : last years in France; title: Minister to France, 1783-85 : last years in Paris; title: The creation of a new nation, 1785-87; title: My final years, 1787; title: Last will and testament of Benjamin Franklin, 1788-89; title: Franklin's outline of the autobiography.