The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Benjamin Franklin's own account of his life, one of the classics of American autobiography. Covering the years up to his prewar stay in London as representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly, Franklin recalls his Boston boyhood, his flight to Philadelphia as a runaway apprentice, his work as a printer, his project of moral self-improvement, his experiments with electricity, and his growing public career. Told in an honest, plain and witty style, it is an intimate portrait of the printer, scienti…

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