The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin / edited by Peter Conn ; preface by Amy Gutmann.

Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in...

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Main Author: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Author)
Other Authors: Conn, Peter J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, PA : PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2005.
Edition:Penn Reading Project ed.
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