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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...
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The Way to Wealth
by Benjamin Franklin Synopsis The first American book on personal finance....
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Benjamin Franklin
by Edwin S. 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...
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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...
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by H W Brands Publisher Comments He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography....
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
by Stacy Schiff Publisher Comments When Benjamin Franklin embarked for France in 1776, he well understood that he was taking on the greatest gamble of his career. The colonies were without money, munitions, gunpowder, or common cause; dispatched amid great secrecy, across a winter sea...
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A Benjamin Franklin Reader
by W 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...
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Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin’s human side—his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three hundred years after his birth, we may remember Franklin’s famous...
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Benjamin Franklin : an American Life (03 Edition)
by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments Rescuing Franklin from the cliche of the genial codger, the bestselling author of 'Kissinger' celebrates the most advanced and earthy of the founding fathers in a riveting biography that brings Benjamin Franklin to life....
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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 Republicand winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizescomes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really...
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Benjamin Franklin
by Edmund S Morgan Synopsis Chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and as a best book for 2002 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book World, and Publishers Weekly. A finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award in...
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Benjamin Franklin
by Edmund S Morgan
Synopsis Benjamin Franklin was a man of vast contradictions, as Edmund Morgan demonstrates in this biography. Seeking to unravel the enigma of Franklin's character, Morgan shows that he was a rare individual who consistently placed the public interest before his...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Autobiography & Other Writings
by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing Poor...
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Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends
by Jack Fruchtman Publisher Comments Ben Franklin was at the heart of the Enlightenment. He drew to him some of the greatest minds of that time, people who remain among the most intriguing in history—Americans, Englishmen, and Frenchmen whose ideas continue to shape how we live to...
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Related Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Now in its second edition, this authoritative edition of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography provides a window into eighteenth-century American society. Louis Masur's introduction allows students to see how the story of this famous figure illustrates a...
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The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin Classics)
by Larzer Ziff Synopsis A generous selection of writings that brings to life the attractive, complex, and guileful genius of the most celebrated American of his age It takes a "very" inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interests of Benjamin...
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Doctor Franklin's Medicine
by Stanely Finger Synopsis Benjamin Franklin founded the first hospital and medical school in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the causes of the common cold. His inventions--including bifocal lenses and a "long arm" that...
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