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May 30, 2000 | ISBN 9780679640387
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Franklin’s Autobiography is one of the most famous works in American literature. He started it as a private collection of anecdotes for his son, but soon it was transformed into a work of history, both personal and national, revealing Franklin as the man who, as Herman Melville said, possessed “deep worldly wisdom and polished Italian tact, gleaming under an air of Arcadian unaffectedness.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790) was a printer, writer, inventor, scientist, diplomat, and statesman. JILL LEPORE is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her books include Book of Ages, a… More about Benjamin Franklin
"If you want the brutal truth, I did not expect to get much useful information out of Poor Richard’s Almanack. I wondered, what could Benjamin Franklin–a guy who has been, no offense, dead for more than two hundred years–possibly have to say that would be relevant to a resident of today’s dot-com world? Plenty, as it turns out."–from the Introduction by Dave Barry
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