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

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

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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.

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

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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.

Author: Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688169937
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky. Is such a thing possible? Is it. Take a look inside and find Ben busy at work on every spread. Then find out how he used his discovery about lightning to make people's lives safer. In an inventive way, Rosalyn Schanzer brings us a brilliant and ever-curious American original.

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

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

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312198353
Category : Maxims, American
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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This next installment of the highly successful "Bite-Size" series draws some practical wisdom, and more than a few laughs, from Ben Franklin's intimate letters, scientific essays, newspaper articles, and revolutionary writings.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1557090793
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin was written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a torturous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of autobiography ever written.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 944

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This collection starts first and foremost with Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, one of the most famous and influential autobiographies ever written. The edition includes all the collections of his writings, together with various papers that have been published in separate pamphlets. All the writing are methodically arranged, the moral and philosophical works according to their subjects and the political papers according to their dates. Contents: Autobiography Letters and Papers on Electricity Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects Papers on Subjects of General Politics Papers on American Subjects Before the Revolutionary Troubles Papers on American Subjects During the Revolutionary Troubles Papers, Descriptive of America, or Relating to That Country, Written Subsequent to the Revolution Papers on Moral Subjects and the Economy of Life Letters by Several Eminent Persons, Illustrative of Dr. Franklin's Manners and Character

Author: Pamela Rushby
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426301919
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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A short biography of the American genius who was a statesman, inventor, author and more.

Author: Jean Fritz
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698113721
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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A fun historic tale by Newbery Honor-winning author, Jean Fritz! No matter how busy he was, Ben Franklin always found time to try out new ideas: a remote-control lock (so he could lock his door without getting out of bed), a rocking chair with a fan over it (to keep flies away), and a windmill (to turn his roast meat on its spit). Aside from being a mad of ideas, he was an ambassador to England, a printer, an almanac maker, a politician, and even a vegetarian (for a time, anyway). "This biography is distinguished by its humanizing detail [and] amusing tone." - School Library Journal