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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments As such it deserves to be offered to twentieth-century readers in the most accurate form possible, and so it is, in this Norton Critical Edition, the first text to be edited directly from the manuscripts, rather than perpetuating the errors of previous... (read more) List Price $16.35 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard S Almanack (Dover Thrift Editions) by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many issues of Franklin's popular 18th-century publication: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"; "Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge"; "He that... (read more) List Price $3.25 Your price: $0.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America by Stacy Schiff Publisher Comments In this dazzling work of history, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows Benjamin Franklin to France for the crowning achievement of his career. "In December of 1776 a small boat delivered an old man to France." So begins an enthralling narrative... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was one of the great philosophers of his time. But there was a side to him you were not exposed to in school -- a bawdy, scurrilous side that was all too eager to ignite the fires of controversy. From time to time, he... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit (Critical Historical Encounters) by Sheila Skemp Publisher Comments On January 29, 1774, Benjamin Franklin was called to appear before the Privy Council--a select group of the King's advisors--in an octagonal-shaped room in Whitehall Palace known as the Cockpit. Spurred by jeers and applause from the audience in the... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Hardcover
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon S Wood Publisher Comments From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republicandmdash;and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizesandmdash;comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Benjamin Franklin Reader by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments Selected and annotated by the author of the acclaimed Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, this collection of Franklin's writings shows why he was the bestselling author of his day and remains America's favorite Founder and wit. As a twelve-year-old... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Wit & Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin by James C Humes Publisher Comments A treasury of over 900 quotations spoken by the first "American" as well as numerous entertaining anecdotes about his adventures and misadventures, making it the fourth in the WIT & WISDOM series from RHVP. Covering everything from Sage... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments 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.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Benjamin Franklin's the Art of Virtue: His Formula for Successful Living by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Benjamin Franklin was one of the greatest American minds of the 18th century, and his goal was to be a doer of good and to live a useful life. His dedication to principles of self-improvement and his belief that these principles could be beneficial to... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Benjamin Franklin (Lives & Legacies) by Edwin Gaustad Publisher Comments The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the greatest man and ornament of his age." In this short, engaging biography, historian Edwin S. Gaustad offers a marvelous... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Yale Nota Bene) by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. Unraveling the enigma of Franklin's character, Morgan shows that he was the rare... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poor Richards Almanack by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Our popular Charming Petites "TM" have eye-catching 4-color art and a wide array of subjects. Each has a 24K gold-plated or silver-plated charm to keep on the ribbon bookmark or to wear on a bracelet or necklace.<P>A classic of Ben Franklin's... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous... (read more) List Price $8.50 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce E. Chaplin Publisher Comments Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin-he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. In this authoritative intellectual biography of America’s most brilliant and cosmopolitan Founding Father, Joyce Chaplin considers Franklin’s... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H W Brands Publisher Comments In the first comprehensive biography of Benjamin Franklin in over sixty years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings vividly to life one of the most delightful, bawdy, brilliant, original, and important figures in American history. A groundbreaking... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by Sheila L. Skemp Publisher Comments The American Revolution was a civil war as well as a war for independence. The experience of Benjamin Franklin and his son, William, royal governor of New Jersey, reveals America's internal struggle over the question of loyalty to England. A collection... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Translated into a dozen languages, printed in hundreds of editions, and read by millions of people, Franklin's autobiography has had an influence perhaps unequaled by any other book by an American writer. Written ostensibly as a letter to his son William,... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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