The Autobiography and Other WritingsThis authoritative Bantam Classic edition presents readers with a wide-ranging selection of Benjamin Franklin’s most important writings, illuminating the complex and appealing character of this quintessential American who rose to fame as a publisher, inventor, educator, bon vivant, and statesman. Here are selections from Franklin’s newspaper articles, from the sage wisdom of Poor Richard’s Almanac, from his entertaining letters, from his scientific essays, from his political and revolutionary writings, plus a generous sampling of his famous aphorisms, poems, and humor. And, most important, here is a newly edited text of one of the most vital and important works of American literature, the Autobiography. As fascinating and as relevant as ever, this timeless collection of writings reveals an extraordinary man whose mind was always curious, always questioning, and who forever remained dedicated to the principles of truth and liberty. |
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... young and then zealously guarded a reputation for honesty and good sense. It is of course a familiar account, which reverberates throughout American history in such real careers as Andrew Carnegie's and such fictional ones as Horatio ...
... young and then zealously guarded a reputation for honesty and good sense. It is of course a familiar account, which reverberates throughout American history in such real careers as Andrew Carnegie's and such fictional ones as Horatio ...
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... young protagonist, the godlike creator of legend, or the avuncular narrator with the less easy to characterize author. Unlike his abstemious hero, the real Franklin sometimes “drank more than a Philosopher ought,” as he put it, and in ...
... young protagonist, the godlike creator of legend, or the avuncular narrator with the less easy to characterize author. Unlike his abstemious hero, the real Franklin sometimes “drank more than a Philosopher ought,” as he put it, and in ...
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... young Franklin retaliates against older and more powerful persons who exploit his innocence, by showing them up or outsmarting them. With his tyrannical brother looking on, he flaunts his new suit and watch before James's workmen, to ...
... young Franklin retaliates against older and more powerful persons who exploit his innocence, by showing them up or outsmarting them. With his tyrannical brother looking on, he flaunts his new suit and watch before James's workmen, to ...
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... young, and carried his Wife with three Children unto New England, about 1682. The Conventicles having been forbidden by Law, & frequently disturbed, induced some considerable Men of his Acquaintance to remove to that Country, and he was ...
... young, and carried his Wife with three Children unto New England, about 1682. The Conventicles having been forbidden by Law, & frequently disturbed, induced some considerable Men of his Acquaintance to remove to that Country, and he was ...
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