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A review by jbmorgan86
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
4.0
If someone writes an autobiography, he/she must think (or know!) that he/she is something special. It’s striking that Benjamin Franklin felt that the details of his life ought to be written down . . . nearly 20 years prior to all of they American Revolution stuff he’s usually associated with!
This autobiography isn’t an exhaustive autobiography. It is fairly short. Franklin spends much more time discussing his achievements than he does the mundane details of his life (the death of a son to small pox only gets a minor mention).
What have you here is details about Franklin’s business, his views on Christianity (Franklin was a deist, very skeptical of Christianity, his virtue-tracking project, the origin of Poor Richard’s Almanac, his role in the French and Indian War, and his electrical experiments.
I read this because I recently discovered a collection of the Harvard Classics. This is the first book of the first volume. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the read.
This autobiography isn’t an exhaustive autobiography. It is fairly short. Franklin spends much more time discussing his achievements than he does the mundane details of his life (the death of a son to small pox only gets a minor mention).
What have you here is details about Franklin’s business, his views on Christianity (Franklin was a deist, very skeptical of Christianity, his virtue-tracking project, the origin of Poor Richard’s Almanac, his role in the French and Indian War, and his electrical experiments.
I read this because I recently discovered a collection of the Harvard Classics. This is the first book of the first volume. I was surprised how much I enjoyed the read.