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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Penn Reading Project Edition (Paperback, Penn Reading Project Ed.)
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Penn Reading Project Edition (Paperback, Penn Reading Project Ed.)
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Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor,
statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very
embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the
age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged
from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a
state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and
having gone so far through life with a considerable share of
felicity." The result is a classic of American literature. On the
eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he
founded has selected the Autobiography for the Penn Reading
Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of
Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming
class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and
discuss together. For this occasion the University of Pennsylvania
Press will publish a special edition of Franklin's Autobiography,
including a new preface by University president Amy Gutmann and an
introduction by distinguished scholar Peter Conn. The volume will
also include four short essays by noted Penn professors as well as
a chronology of Franklin's life and the text of Franklin's
Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, a
document resulting in the establishment of an institution of higher
education that ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania. No
area of human endeavor escaped Franklin's keen attentions. His
ideas and values, as Amy Gutmann notes in her remarks, have shaped
the modern University of Pennsylvania profoundly, "more profoundly
than have the founders of any other major university of college in
the United States." Franklin believed that he had been born too
soon. Readers will recognize that his spirit lives on at Penn
today. Essay contributors: Richard R. Beeman, Paul Guyer, Michael
Weisberg, and Michael Zuckerman.
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