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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a blueprint for the prototypical American, chronicling Benjamin Franklin's life as a printer, diplomat, statesman, patriot, scientist, inventor, and writer. Published posthumously in various forms over several years, first in French and then in English, Franklin's autobiography is a literary achievement worthy of the epic U.S. founding father. Franklin originally intended the document of his life and works to be for the sole use and enjoyment...

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

4,008 words, approx. 14 pages

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin's life of eighty-four years (1706-1790) spanned most of the eighteenth century-a period in which the American coloni... Read more

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Title:  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Author:  Benjamin Franklin Release Date:  July, 1994 [EBook #148] [This file was last updated on January 19, 2005] Edition:  11 Langu... Read more

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Benjamin Franklin

3,080 words, approx. 11 pages

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a leader of America's Revolutionary generation. His character and thought were shaped by a blending of Puritan heritage, Enlightenment philosophy, and the New World e... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

11,284 words, approx. 38 pages

As author of one of the most famous autobiographies ever written and publisher of the Poor Richard almanacs, Benjamin Franklin holds forever a firm place in the hearts and minds of Americans (and, i... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

8,005 words, approx. 27 pages

Irrepressibly inventive, gifted with a "marvellous range," Benjamin Franklin, an admiring biographer observed, was "a harmonious human multitude." To his contemporaries he seemed prodigious. To us, li... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

1,834 words, approx. 7 pages

Rarely remembered as a magazinist, Benjamin Franklin throughout his life paid tribute to the print shop, which served first as his school-room and later as a pulpit for his ideas on government and the... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

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Benjamin Franklin--printer, scientist, inventor, author, philosopher, and statesman--was also one of the great travelers of the eighteenth century. Living in Europe for more than a quarter of a centur... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

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Biography EssayAs author of one of the most famous autobiographies ever written and publisher of the Poor Richard almanacs, Benjamin Franklin holds forever a firm place in the hearts and minds of Amer... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

891 words, approx. 3 pages

Born in what was then the British colony of Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706, Franklin was the fifteenth of seventeen children and received only two years of a formal education. He started w... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

1,217 words, approx. 5 pages

Born on January 17, 1706, in the British colony of Boston, Massachusetts, Franklin was the fifteenth of 17 children. His father was an impoverished candlemaker, unable to afford to send young Benjamin... Read more

Benjamin Franklin

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Born on January 17, 1706, in the British colony of Boston, Massachusetts, Franklin was the fifteenth of seventeen children. His father was an impoverished candlemaker, unable to afford to send young B... Read more

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

583 words, approx. 2 pages

Benjamin is writing this autobiography for his son to show his successes and failures in his life so as his son will not make the same mistakes. He is growing older and writes so that his words will ... Read more

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