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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.



Table of Contents:

Preface: The Power of Values, by Amy Gutmann
Introduction: Benjamin Franklin and the American Imagination, by Peter Conn
PART I. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, edited by Nathan G. Goodman
PART II. CRITICAL ESSAYS
Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment, by Richard R. Beeman
Freedom of Reason, by Paul Guyer
An Inclination Joined with an Ability to Serve, by Michael Zuckerman
The Key to Electricity, by Michael Weisberg
APPENDICES
Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, by Benjamin Franklin
A Chronology of Franklin's Life, compiled by Mark Frazier Lloyd
Contributors



About the Author :
Peter Conn is Andrea Mitchell Term Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917, Literature in America, and Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography, which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, was included among the five finalists for the National Book Critics Circle award in biography, and received the Athenaeum Award. Amy Gutmann is President of the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent books are Identity in Democracy: Why Deliberative Democracy? with Dennis Thompson, and Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, with Anthony Appiah, which won the Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association, the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award, and the Gustavus Myers Human Rights Award.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780812200119
  • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 192
  • ISBN-10: 081220011X
  • Publisher Date: 24 Nov 2010
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Sub Title: Penn Reading Project Edition


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