The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN: 1512405264
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Between 1771 and 1790, American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin sat down to record the important events of his life, from his childhood in Boston to his work as a printer in Philadelphia, to his trips to Paris and his plans for the first public library. The story of the invention of the Franklin stove, the first Poor Richard's Almanac, and his experiments with electricity are all included here. His "Project for Moral Perfection"—a list of desirable virtues and steps to achieve them—influenced the modern self-help genre. Hundreds of years later, Franklin's account of his rise from middle-class obscurity to become a world-renowned scholar and civic figure continues to promote the American Dream. First published in 1791, this unabridged version of Franklin's autobiography is taken from the 1909 copyright edition.

Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781441300591
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Benjamin Franklin

Author: Edmund Sears Morgan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300101621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
Draws on Franklin's extensive writings to provide a portrait of the statesman, inventor, and Founding Father.

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Gordon S. Wood
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101200901
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
“I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and balanced . . .” —The New York Sun “Exceptionally rich perspective on one of the most accomplished, complex, and unpredictable Americans of his own time or any other.” —The Washington Post Book World 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 and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex—and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country’s idea of itself.

Benjamin Franklin

Author: Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
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 Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the “thorough deist” who emerges in his autobiography. As Thomas Kidd reveals, deist writers influenced Franklin’s beliefs, to be sure, but devout Christians in his life—including George Whitefield, the era’s greatest evangelical preacher; his parents; and his beloved sister Jane—kept him tethered to the Calvinist creed of his Puritan upbringing. Based on rigorous research into Franklin’s voluminous correspondence, essays, and almanacs, this fresh assessment of a well-known figure unpacks the contradictions and conundrums faith presented in Franklin’s life.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Who Was Ben Franklin?

Author: Dennis Brindell Fradin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101640081
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers! Full of all the details kids will want to know, the true story of Benjamin Franklin is by turns sad and funny, but always honest and awe-inspiring.

The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin

Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426302978
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
Learn about this most amazing American.

Benjamin Franklin

Author:
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780385072199
Category : Printers
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
The story of Benjamin Franklin, told for young children, presents various incidents from his life and career.

Benjamin Franklin Butler

Author: Elizabeth D. Leonard
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146966805X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393

Book Description
Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Remembered most often for his uncompromising administration of the Federal occupation of New Orleans during the war, Butler reemerges in this lively narrative as a man whose journey took him from childhood destitution to wealth and profound influence in state and national halls of power. Prize-winning biographer Elizabeth D. Leonard chronicles Butler's successful career in the law defending the rights of the Lowell Mill girls and other workers, his achievements as one of Abraham Lincoln's premier civilian generals, and his role in developing wartime policy in support of slavery's fugitives as the nation advanced toward emancipation. Leonard also highlights Butler's personal and political evolution, revealing how his limited understanding of racism and the horrors of slavery transformed over time, leading him into a postwar role as one of the nation's foremost advocates for Black freedom and civil rights, and one of its notable opponents of white supremacy and neo-Confederate resurgence. Butler himself claimed he was "always with the underdog in the fight." Leonard's nuanced portrait will help readers assess such claims, peeling away generations of previous assumptions and characterizations to provide a definitive life of a consequential man.