The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in...

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Main Author: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Author)
Other Authors: Conn, Peter J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005
Edition:Penn Reading Project ed.
Subjects:
Franklin, Benjamin, > 1706-1790.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
Scientists > United States > Biography.
Inventors > United States > Biography.
Printers > United States > Biography.
Education > Pennsylvania.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The power of values / by Amy Gutmann
  • Benjamin Franklin and the American imagination / by Peter Conn
  • The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / edited by Nathan G. Goodman
  • Benjamin Franklin and the American Enlightenment / by Richard R. Beeman
  • Freedom on reason / by Paul Guyer
  • An inclination joined with an ability to serve / by Michael Zuckerman
  • The key to electricity / by Michael Weisberg
  • Proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania / by Benjamin Franklin
  • A chronology of Franklin's life / compiled by Mark Frazier Lloyd.

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