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The unfinished life of Benjamin Franklin
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ISBN: 1421406136 1421405237 9781421406138 9781421405230 Year: 2012 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press


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Benjamin Franklin Wealth and Wisdom
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ISBN: 1722523689 9781722523688 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York G & D Media

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An early and influential advocate of the idea that any of us can create in ourselves the greatness to which we aspire, Franklin speaks across the centuries to readers as clearly and practically as ever in two classics of the American Spirit in one volume.

Franklin on Franklin
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ISBN: 9780813158037 0813158036 0813191319 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lexington The University Press of Kentucky

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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography ends in 1758, some thirty years before he died. Those three decades included some of the statesman's greatest triumphs, yet instead of including them in his memoir, Franklin spent the years continually revising his original text. Paul Zall has created a new autobiographical account of Franklin's entire life. By returning to a newly recovered early draft of the Autobiography, he strips away later layers of moralizing to reveal the story as Franklin first wrote it: how a poor boy from Boston used words and hard work to become America's first world-class citizen


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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : the complete illustrated edition
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ISBN: 9780760351451 0760351457 Year: 2016 Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Voyageur Press,


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The life of Benjamin Franklin.
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ISBN: 1139060309 1108033415 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) is best known as an American revolutionary politician, but he also excelled as a printer, journalist and natural philosopher despite having little formal education. As a statesman, he was the only person to sign all three major documents of American statehood: the Declaration of Independence, the peace treaty with Britain, and the United States constitution. This three-volume set, first published in 1874, was compiled from Franklin's autobiography (covering the period up to 1857) and autobiographical passages from correspondence and other writings. Franklin's account of self-discipline and motivation remains one of the most popular autobiographies of all time. Volume 1 contains his original autobiography, and also describes his experiments with lightning conductors, his opposition to the Stamp Act, and his examination before the House of Commons.


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The life of Benjamin Franklin.
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ISBN: 1139060317 1108033423 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) is best known as an American revolutionary politician, but he also excelled as a printer, journalist and natural philosopher despite having little formal education. As a statesman, he was the only person to sign all three major documents of American statehood: the Declaration of Independence, the peace treaty with Britain, and the United States constitution. This three-volume set, first published in 1874, was compiled from Franklin's autobiography (covering the period up to 1857) and autobiographical passages from correspondence and other writings. Franklin's account of self-discipline and motivation remains one of the most popular autobiographies of all time. Volume 2 describes his election as President of the American Philosophical Society and his involvement in drafting the Declaration of Independence and the Treaty of Alliance with France.

Autobiography and other writings
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ISBN: 0140390529 9780140390520 Year: 1986 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Penguin books

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Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man and a wholly unconvential human being. The only person to sign all four major documents of the founding of the United States - the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Treaty of Alliance with France, and the Treaty of Peace with England - he preferred to be known as a printer. This book is an invaluable chronicle of Franklin's rise from a printer's apprentice to an internationally famous scientist, inventor, statesman, legislator, and diplomat.


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Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution
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ISBN: 1283050951 9786613050953 0803234155 0803230338 9780803234154 9780803230330 9781283050951 6613050954 0803269528 9780803269521 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Press

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The inventor, the ladies' man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of Franklin's part in the American Revolution: except for Washington he was its most irreplaceable leader. Although aged and in ill health, Franklin served the cause with unsurpassed zeal and dedication. Jonathan R. Dull, whose decades of work on The Papers of Benjamin Franklin have given him rare insight into his subject, explains Franklin's role in the Revolution, what prepared him for that role, an


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Benjamin Franklin
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ISBN: 154574985X Year: 2007 Publisher: Hockessin : Mitchell Lane,

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Few people have accomplished as much in as many different areas as Benjamin Franklin. He became the first internationally famous American scientist. In 1752, he proved that lightning is electricity. His dozens of inventions ranged from swim fins to bifocals. He proposed daylight savings time. In the colonies, he set up police and fire departments, public libraries, and post offices. As a famous printer, he was also one of the country s most popular writers. Franklin also excelled in politics. He helped establish the United States of America: He was on the committee that drew up the Declaration of Independence, he convinced France to provide crucial assistance to the colonial army, he signed the Treaty of Paris, and he contributed ideas for the U.S. Constitution. In this book for young readers, author Jim Whiting overviews the life of one of the most famous Americans, Benjamin Franklin.

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