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Benjamin Franklin's celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time-but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life's story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history-years in which Franklin was America's advocate in London, represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, and was...
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Series
Library of America volume 37
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
1605 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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This edition of Franklin's famous autobiography is accompanied by a portfolio of illustrations and an introduction that provides background for students and invites them to think about the work's lasting impact on American society and culture.
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Vintage Books/Library of America
Pub. Date
1990.
Edition
First Vintage Books/The Library of America edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 214 ; 21 cm
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English
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Famous as a scientist, statesman, philosopher, businessman, and civic leader, Benjamin Franklin was also one of the most powerful and controversial American writers of his time, and has been a subject of intense debate ever since: to Matthew Arnold, he exemplified "victorious good sense"; to D.H. Lawrence, he was "the first dummy American." Franklin's classic Autobiography is his last word on his greatest literary creation -- his own invented persona,...
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Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1a. edición.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
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"Benjamin Franklin fue considerado el primer estadounidense de la historia, y su firma se encuentra al pie de la Declaracion de Independencia de Estados Unidos junto a la de George Washington o Thomas Jefferson. En Filadelfia dirigio diversos periodicos y fundo la academia que acabaria convirtiendose en la Universidad de Pensilvania. Como director nacional de correos, establecio el primer sistema de comunicacion postal que abarcaba todo el territorio...
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English
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Poor Richard's Almanack is one of Benjamin Franklin's most charming creations. He delighted in cloaking his writing behind a variety of literary personas, and Richard Saunders remains one of his most beloved, although some critics have complained that Poor Richard reveals the shallow materialism at the heart of Franklin's homespun philosophy and, by extension, at...
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English
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Benjamin Franklin recalls his life--as a rebellious runaway apprentice to a successful leader, as printer and journalist, social and political reformer, scientist and philosopher. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin distills the complex and passionate intellectual strivings of the man whom David Hume called the first philosopher and great man of letters of the New World. Benjamin Franklin was a true renaissance man. A statesman and a diplomat,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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."This read-along shows how Ben Franklin, one of 17 children in a poor family in Colonial Massachusetts, became one of our greatest statesmen and inventors. This straightforward biography is embellished with soft background music and sound effects that are picked up from the details in the lively, quaint illustrations in the accompanying book."-AudioFile
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English
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From Benjamin Franklin's birth in Boston to his election by Congress as America's first ambassador to France, the author traces the fascinating development of an impetuous and saucy youth who became a beloved man on both his native soil and throughout the world. "Few men have more claims to greatness than Benjamin Franklin. He was in his long lifetime, writer, editor and publisher, scientist and inventor, propagandist for the cause of the American...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish--fins and all. This ... account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led Ben to even more innovations and inventions. Includes Franklin quotes, a timeline, bibliography, and source notes"--Amazon.com.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's most beloved figures, credited with introducing bifocals, daylight savings time, lightning rods, and the establishment of post offices.
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English
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Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a best-selling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist, and the most prominent celebrity of the 18th century. Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions,...
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