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The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, with a
foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan "The best
and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography]."-J. H. Plumb,
New York Review of Books "Among the many editions available-read
Yale's. Its text is the most reliable (the Franklin papers are at
Yale) and its supplementary material is uniformly useful."-Jonathan
Yardley, Washington Post A classic of eighteenth-century American
history and literature, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography has had
an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American
writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William,
Franklin's Autobiography offers his reflections on philosophy and
religion, politics, war, education, material success, and the
status of women. Prepared by the editors of The Papers of Benjamin
Franklin this definitive edition is drawn with scrupulous care from
the original manuscript in Franklin's handwriting now in the Henry
E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. The introduction by Leonard
W. Labaree places the autobiography in literary and historical
contexts. In a new foreword, eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S.
Morgan writes about Franklin's dual allegiance as an American and a
subject of an English king-and his emergence as a leader of the
American Revolution. This edition also includes biographical notes,
a chronology of Franklin's life, and an updated bibliography.
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