Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals,...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
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Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most important and influential...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most important and influential...
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Gildan Media Corp
Pub. Date
2006
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In this inspiring tale, Franklin steps out of the past and shares with you his famed maxims about wealth, knowledge, virtue and all other elements of business success. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin offers Franklin's life story-at least the first few decades, as he died without finishing it-as he tries to identify and develop a formula for personal success. Included is the popular 'Art of Virtue', in which Franklin lists the 13 qualities
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Library of America volume 37
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
c1987
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This Benjamin Franklin anthology includes Poor Richard's Almanack, The Autobiography, speeches in the Constitutional Convention, writings on slavery, essays, news reporting, political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters.
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Published for the American Philosophical Society by the Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1950
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The delightful correspondence between Benjamin Franklin and his favorite sister, with an introduction and notes by Carl Van Doren. Franklin wrote more letters to Jane Mecom than he is known to have written to any other person, and as she emerges through these letters we understand the reasons for the esteem in which he held her. The letters cover a period of over sixty years, give new and intimate glimpses of Franklin and of the times, particularly...
