حول مذكرات بنيامين فرانكلين

by Frank R. Donovan, أحمد حمودة (Translator)

Genres: Biography, Politics

370 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1988

Reviews

[Nick Geiser · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall a great book. The only flaw that I have noticed in it is that it isn't the most interesting thing in the world. It gets right to the punch, and doesn't have anything other than information. That is how I like my books, which is why I give it a four star.

[William Razavi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fairly straightforward short bio of Franklin that does a good job of covering the important parts of his career. It's a very sympathetic portrayal but tries mostly to avoid myth except when it covers the ways in which Franklin was mythologized in his own lifetime and after. To whit, the prose gets a little bit wistful right at the end about Franklin the giant beacon of liberty for the world, but that serves as an illustration of how Franklin the myth has outgrown Franklin the man.
One brief line in there about Franklin's business dealings including the buying and selling of people and how it contradicted his own later support for abolition.
The existence of native Americans is as much an inconvenience for this book as it was for the colonists so don't expect great things there. We get a brief glimpse of Franklin's experience organizing Pennsylvania forces in the 1740s as well as in the French & Indian War which rarely get mentioned in books for younger readers.
The illustrations are great.

[WSL Library]

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