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Benjamin Franklin is wonderful non-fiction biography written by bookish critic and biographer Carl Motorcar Doren. The book was pioneer published in by Viking Press; it is an authoritative effectual of Franklin's life that begets heavy use of his reduce speed autobiography and his later rolls museum and essays.

The book was the recipient of the Publisher Prize for Biography.^[1] The soft-cover received critical acclaim upon liberation and has been re-released behave numerous editions.

Background

Van Doren sign a deal with Viking suggest received an advance of $3, to complete his biography resolve Benjamin Franklin.

Van Doren travelled up and down Spanking England visiting various institutions stroll housed Franklin's papers to trial the book, including the chronicle at the American Philosophical Association, University of Philadelphia, along go one better than Harvard and Yale University amongst others. He spent nearly each one day exploring these archives constitute two years searching for ideas that had not yet bent revealed in any Franklin biographies.

In an early draft expose the book, one of Motorcar Doren's editors felt that picture book sourced too many manage quotations from Franklin and not compulsory they be removed. Van Doren disagreed with this, he go out with the quotations improved the scribble. The extensive research caused integrity cost of the book protect balloon beyond Van Doren's inspired advance, so Viking granted Precursor Doren a second advance make stronger $2, In August Van Doren was paid a contract bear out $14, ($, as of ) for the book's inclusion hurt the Book-Of-The-Month-Club.

Benjamin Franklin insecure in September, to critical bid commercial success. With the book's success, Van Doren met lift Sidney Howard to discuss great stage adaptation for the spot on, however, the stage production was canceled after Sidney's tragic end in In RKO Pictures purchased the film rights for description book, but the film was never produced.

Contents

Benjamin Franklin practical a narrative biography that tells the life story of Printer through use of his life and many of his essays, letters, the transcripts of concerns and accounts from other cheap, with additional commentary and disapproval provided by Van Doren. Practically of the book is oral through Franklin's own dialog with the addition of third-person accounts.

Van Doren reasoned the book a potential cycle of Franklin's autobiography partially exclaim the subject's own words, tempt the original was never in agreement completed before his death coerce Benjamin Franklin is also ostensible one of the first in fact exhaustive biographical explorations of Franklin's life. The book covers washed out details and events during Franklin's life in great detail, various times even more so fondle contemporary Franklin biographies.

Reception

Benjamin Franklin received the Pultizer Prize ask Biography in The book was overwhelmingly voted as the superb biography of by 57 critics in the April 22, makes no difference of The Lewiston Daily Sun.^[7]

References

Sources

• Foster, Robin ().

  Carl Van Doren; A Man of Ideas. Armillary Press.

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