The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin

by Douglas Anderson

Book Overview

Benjamin Franklin wrote his posthumously published memoir--a model of the genre--in several pieces and in different temporal and physical places. Douglas Anderson's study of this work reveals the famed inventor as a literary adept whose approach to autobiographical narrative was as innovative and radical as the inventions and political thought for which he is renowned.

Franklin never completed his autobiography, choosing instead to immerse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421405237
• ISBN13: 9781421405230
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher