This book used to be in a library, so it still has its library binding and a scratched-off barcode.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Minnesota

How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America--an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the "first Drudgery" of settling the American colonies now well and truly past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was high time that the colonists set about improving the lot of humankind through collaborative inquiry. From Franklin's idea emerged the American Philosophical Society, an association hosted in Philadelphia and dedicated to the harnessing of man's intellectual and creative powers for the common good. The animus behind the Society was and is a disarmingly simple one-that the value of knowledge is directly proportional to its utility. This straightforward idea has left a profound mark on American society and culture and on the very idea of America itself-and through America, on the world as a whole.

From celebrated historian of knowledge Jonathan Lyons comes The Society for Useful Knowledge, telling the story of America's coming-of-age through its historic love affair with practical invention, applied science, and self-reliance. Offering fresh, original portraits of figures like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, and the inimitable, endlessly inventive Franklin, Lyons gives us vital new perspective on the American founding. He illustrates how the movement for useful knowledge is key to understanding the flow of American society and culture from colonial times to our digital present.

The Society for Useful Knowledge

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Several pages dog-eared with folds on the bottom corners. 

New Jersey

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Missouri

A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, publisher, inventor, scientist, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.

Who Was Ben Franklin?

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Texas

Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane

By bestselling biographer and journalist, a selective collection that illustrates his passage from school to journalist to illustrious biographer.

American Sketches

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New York

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Michigan

An American Life

Presents a portrait of Benjamin Franklin as a scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, business strategist, and statesman while tracing his life as one of America's Founding Fathers.

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Approx 7.5"X5"

Pennsylvania

What's the Big Idea Ben Franklin?

A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Utah

The Benjamin Franklin Sampler

#hardcover #history #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #gordanswood #wood #america #foundingfathers #pulitzerprize This book has a scuff mark on the spine (see photo) interior is immaculate.  Below dust jacket is beautiful (see photos)

Offers a portrait of the complex, often contradictory figure of Benjamin Franklin, a man who was at once the quintessential American and a cosmopolitan lover of Europe, and a one-time loyalist turned revolutionary.

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

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Maine

Young Printer

Benjamin Franklin: Young Printer is the next installment in the Childhood of Famous Americans series.

One of the most popular series ever published for young American's, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies - easily read by children of eight and up - today's youngster is swept into history.

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Arizona

#paperback #benfranklin #history #homeschool #nonfiction 

Iowa

What's the big idea, Ben Franklin?

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The Autobiography

Famous as a scientist, statesman, philosopher, businessman, and civic leader, Benjamin Franklin was also one of the most powerful and controversial American writers of his time, and has been a subject of intense debate ever since: to Matthew Arnold, he exemplified "victorious good sense"; to D.H. Lawrence, he was "the first dummy American." Franklin's classic Autobiography is his last word on his greatest literary creation -- his own invented persona, the original incarnation of the American success story. For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome and durable paperback books. A distinguished author has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a detailed chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the choice of the text, and notes.

Franklin

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A collection of 80 exciting biographies of some of the great people who shaped this world.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Arkansas

Reader's Digest

Great Lives Great Deeds

Dennis Brindell Fradin

Who HQ

Small creases on cover. Light signs of use.

Useful Tips and Fascinating Facts for Every Day of the Year

Ben Franklin's Almanac of Wit, Wisdom, and Practical Advice

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Maya Glass

Georgia

Early American Genius

The scientist and statesman profiled by Egan and Glass is perhaps America's most famous early citizen.

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Ben and Me

Tennessee

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Florida

History

How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery That Baffled All of France

"Together, Rockliff and Bruno make the scientific method seem exciting, and kids interested in science and history will likely be, well, mesmerized." -- Booklist (starred review)

When American inventor Benjamin Franklin arrives in Paris, he is upstaged by a compelling and enigmatic figure: Dr. Mesmer. In elaborately staged shows, Mesmer has Parisians believing he can control a magic force that changes the taste of water, cures illness, and controls thoughts! Can Ben Franklin's approach of observing, hypothesizing, and testing get to the bottom of Mesmer's tricks? A rip-roaring, lavishly illustrated peek into a fascinating moment in history shows the development of the scientific method -- and reveals the amazing power of the human mind.

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Jonathan Lyons

The Society for Useful Knowledge

Edmund S. Morgan

Benjamin Franklin

Dennis Brindell Fradin; Who HQ; John O'Brien (Illustrator)

Who Was Ben Franklin?

Walter Isaacson

American Sketches

Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin

Jean Fritz

What's the Big Idea Ben Franklin?

Jean Fritz

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

Benjamin Franklin

The Benjamin Franklin Sampler

Gordon S. Wood

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Augusta Stevenson; Ray Quigley (Illustrator)

Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin

Jean Fritz

What's the big idea, Ben Franklin?

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin

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Great Lives Great Deeds

Dennis Brindell Fradin; Who HQ

Who Was Ben Franklin?

Editors of The Old Farmers Almanac

Ben Franklin's Almanac of Wit, Wisdom, and Practical Advice

Maya Glass

Benjamin Franklin

The Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos

Ben and Me

Dennis Brindell Fradin; Who HQ

Who Was Ben Franklin?

Mara Rockliff; Iacopo Bruno (Illustrator)

Mesmerized

Jean Fritz

What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?

Franklin Institute Museum

The Ben Franklin book of easy and incredible contraptions

Gordon S. Wood

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin