Benjamin Franklin

Carla Mulford

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Rhode Island

The Autobiography and Other Writings

One of the founding fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man- writer, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, and politician. During his long life he offered advice on obtaining wealth, organised public institutions, contributed to the birth of a nation, and negotiated with foreign powers to ensure his country's survival.

Through the words of the elder statesman himself. The Autobiography and Other Writingspresents remarkable insight into the man and his accomplishments. Additional writings from Benjamin Franklin's wife and son provide a more intimate portrait of the husband and father who became a legend in his own time.

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California

Thomas Fleming

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

A Biography in His Own Words

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Edmund S. Morgan

Minnesota

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

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New York

Connie Roop

Peter Roop

Arkansas

A biography of the noted statesman and inventor, featuring excerpts from his letters, pamphlets, essays, scientific papers, and autobiography.

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Walter Isaacson

Pennsylvania

An American Life

In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Walter Isaacson chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America's best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders. He explores the wit behind Poor Richard's Almanac and the wisdom behind the Declaration of Independence, the new nation's alliance with France, the treaty that ended the Revolution, and the compromises that created a near-perfect Constitution.

In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, showing how he helped to forge the American national identity and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.

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Virginia

North Carolina

Kansas

Solid biography on Ben Franklin covering his entire life. Lots of info on his time in the continental congress, his time as an ambassador and the constitutional convention.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Hampshire

Arizona

American statesmen 

Benjamin Franklin 

Edwin S. Gaustad

Florida

Inventing America

Benjamin Franklin arrived in Philadelphia with little more than three loaves of bread under his arm. But this son of a soapmaker went on to lead perhaps the most extraordinary life of any American. With only two years of grammar school education, Franklin became, among other things, a printer,publisher, postmaster, philosopher, scientist, inventor, statesman, musician, and abolitionist.Franklin's achievements were many and varied. As a loyal and inspired patriot, Franklin helped draft the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming at its signing that "we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." His Poor Richard's Almanac was a bestseller and the source ofinnumerable aphorisms, such as "Time is money" and "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," which still are frequently quoted nearly 300 years later. Franklin's curiosity about the world around him led to his experiments with lightning and his invention of the lightningrod. Never idle, he spent his voyages across the Atlantic mapping the Gulf Stream, ensuring sailors faster transatlantic crossings. He also introducing the idea of paved streets to relieve the dust and mud in Philadelphia and organized the country's first volunteer fire companies. Franklin dreamedup the efficient Franklin stove, bifocals, and daylight savings time--all still in use today. In this engaging biography, historian Edwin Gaustad chronicles the life story and many accomplishments of this fascinating and entertaining man, this exemplary citizen of a new country, the UnitedStates.

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New Jersey

This biography of America's first "jack of all trades"--a noted statesman, inventor, newspaper publisher, and scientist--features excerpts from Franklin's own letters, pamphlets, essays, scientific papers, and autobiography.

Massachusetts

An Illustrated History of His Life and Times

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

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.

Kathleen Krull

Utah

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Oregon

Minimal highlighting from previous owner (pictured).

You're about to be an eyewitness to the top ten days in Ben Franklin's life, including:

 * A cunning escape from a cruel brother.
 * A shrewd plan to save the colonies.
 * A treacherous spy game in Paris.
 * A shocking battle with a vengeful aristocrat.
 * And a last-minute triumph that bound American together.


These days and five others shook Franklin's world - and yours.

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