In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty
"What good shall I do today?" How Ben Franklin answered that question -- through his work as a writer, printer, statesman, and inventor -- forever established h
Benjamin Franklin embodied the great American success story. The quintessential polymath, he excelled at, even defined, a number of professions including printe
This is the first book to examine Franklin's Autobiography systematically in relation to the life history from which it was drawn. It also considers the Autobio
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