Labaree places the autobiography in literary and historical contexts. 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. 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. 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. Plumb, New York Review of Books “Among the many editions available-read Yale's. Morgan “The best and most beautiful edition. The authoritative edition of Franklin's autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S.
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