the grandeur of Mecca during
his 1964 pilgrimage, he was frustrated the Arabs' passivity ex-
pressed in the phrase insha Allah ("God willing"). Like Franklin, he
believed in self-help as well as self-control.
Never mind that these three autobiographies have the usual errors
and omissions, says Whitfield (even the editors of the standard Yale
edition report that Franklin's Autobiography is "not notably accurate").
They stand as fascinating testaments to the belief that...