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1) Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times
Author
Publisher
Entrepreneur Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of the Founding Fathers famous quotes as culled from Poor Richards Almanack, his personal letters and other writings, and offers advice on subjects ranging from good citizenship and manners to friendship and happiness.
4) Writings
Author
Series
The Library of America volume 37
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio Inc
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Franklin ended his life's story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history, years in which Franklin was America's advocate in London, represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, and was America's wartime ambassador to France. During these years Franklin also helped write our nation's Constitution and planned an American Empire...
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Series
Language
English
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Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and great man of letters in the New World. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most important and influential works in American history....
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The bastard son of Benjamin Franklin, William Franklin, is named the new Royal Governor of New Jersey, but all he has achieved is threatened when the colonies, led by influential figures including his own father, begin the fight for independence -- a cause he refuses to support.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Poor Richard's women describes Deborah's common-law marriage to Ben Franklin and his romances with other women"--
Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson. Born to Boston Puritans, by his teenage years Franklin had abandoned the exclusive Christian faith of his family and embraced deism. But Franklin, as a man of faith, was far more complex than the "thorough" deist who emerges in his autobiography. As Thomas Kidd reveals, deist writers...
Author
Series
History pals volume 1
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Nolan and his little sister, Olive, find Ben Franklin in their kitchen, they do their best to guide Ben through the new world he helped form.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"From his early career as a printer and journalist, to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world where he fought many battles: with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Franklin was the son of a tradesman in Boston who rose to fame as a printer, writer and publisher. He was also very interested in science and is well known for his many inventions such as the Franklin stove, bi-focal glasses and one of his greatest discoveries that lightning was electricity and learned to harness that power with the invention of a lightning rod. He is also well known as one of the Founding Fathers of the new American nation...
20) Set the stage!
Author
Series
Tiny geniuses volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Great minds think alike . . . Jake's class is gearing up for Living History Night. Every student has to do a report about a famous person in history on stage, in front of the whole school. But Jake has major stage fright . . . POP! Fortunately, Jake has some tiny geniuses to help him break a leg! First Lady of Song Ella Fitzgerald and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin know just what Jake needs. But can they help him without spilling the secret...
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