"The Best Benjamin Franklin Quotation Book ever Published. Special Edition This book of Benjamin Franklin quotes contains only the rarest and most valuable quotations ever recorded about Benjamin Franklin, authored by a team of experienced researchers. Hundreds of hours have been spent in sourcing, [...]
Take a close-up look at Benjamin Franklin, a jack-of-all-trades who served his country well. Interviews with experts and lively writing deliver the accurate reporting you expect from TIME For Kids(R). Historical reproductions and contemporary photographs capture the life of this ingenious man and sh[...]
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic--and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes--comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life a[...]
It takes a very inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin Franklin, but The Portable Benjamin Franklin succeeds as no collection has. In addition to the complete Autobiography, the volume contains about 100 of Franklin's major writings--essays, journ[...]
Franklin's writings span a long and distinguished career of literary, scientific, and political inquiry--the work of a man whose life lasted for nearly all of the 18th century, and whose achievements ranged from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor Richard's Almanac to signing the Declarat[...]
Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World examines the many facets of America's most extraordinary founding father. Politician, diplomat, scientist, printer, and civic improver, Franklin influenced every aspect of American life, from his own time to the present. This book, designed to accompany[...]
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Frank[...]
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He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps "the "pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography.
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This newly edited Norton Critical Edition includes an introduction explaining the history of the Autobiography. The text, written during the most eventful years of Benjamin Franklin's life (1771-1790), is accompanied by new and expanded annotations, a map, an illustration and facsimiles. "Contexts" [...]
Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography one of the great classics of the genre.
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In this engaging study of the much-loved statesman and polymath, Robert Middlekauff uncovers a little-known aspect of Benjamin Franklin's personality--his passionate anger. He reveals a fully human Franklin who led a remarkable life but nonetheless had his share of hostile relationships--political a[...]
Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion addresses several well-known themes in the study of Franklin and his writings, while also showing Franklin in conversation with his British and European counterparts in science, philosophy, and social theory. Specially commissioned chapters, written by sc[...]
One of our most inspiring Americans comes to life in this complete and unabridged reading. Written as a letter to his son, which was never finished, Franklin's account of his life from his childhood in Boston to his years in Philadelphia ends in 1757 with his first mission to England. It includes hi[...]
Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped to forge an American national identity based on the vi[...]
Few American lives have been as celebrated - or as closely scrutinized - as that of Benjamin Franklin. Yet until now Franklin's biographers have downplayed his interest in mathematics, at best portraying it as the idle musings of a brilliant and ever-restless mind. In "Benjamin Franklin's Numbers", [...]
Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped forge an American national identity based on the virtu[...]
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S GREATEST WRITINGS
"Edited and Annotated by Walter Isaacson"
Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, " this collection of Franklin's writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains[...]
Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped to forge an American national identity based on the vi[...]
Filled with archival photographs and amazing fact boxes, this groundbreaking series introduces young readers to some of history's most interesting and influential characters. "DK Biography: Benjamin Franklin" tells the story of the famous statesman's remarkable life, from his early childhood and upb[...]