Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Advice on living a virtuous life, from one of America's Founding Fathers. Benjamin Franklin once wrote that he had "conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection [and] wished to live without committing any fault at any time", "to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into." Although he was never able to finish this project completely, Benjamin Franklin was able to lay down the beginnings...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benjamin Franklin's celebrated autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time-but it was incomplete. Franklin ended his life's story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history-years in which Franklin was America's advocate in London, represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, and was...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famous Poor Richards' Almanack, helped found the University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States. His likeness adorns, among other things, the United States' hundred-dollar bill. Benjamin Franklin was as wildly intriguing a personality as his legend suggest, and as you've always heard,...
6) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 37
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
©1987
Language
English
Description
This Benjamin Franklin anthology includes Poor Richard's Almanack, The Autobiography, speeches in the Constitutional Convention, writings on slavery, essays, news reporting, political satires, bagatelles, pamphlets, and letters.
Author
Publisher
Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Franklin's autobiography has charmed readers of every generation since it appeared. Begun as a collection of anecdotes for his son, the memoir grew into a history of the father's remarkable achievements in the literary, scientific, and political realms. This volume brings together the text of the autobiography with selections from Franklin's humorous, philosophical, parodic, and satirical writings.--Adapted from publisher description.
13) Ben Franklin: America's original entrepreneur : Franklin's autobiography adapted for modern times
Author
Publisher
Entrepreneur Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
18) Avtobiografii︠a︡
Author
Publisher
Ripol Klassik
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
"Bendzhamin Franklin -- chelovek neveroi︠a︡tnogo znachenii︠a︡ v istorii Ameriki. On byl politikom, diplomatom, pisatelem, izobretatelem i edinstvennyĭ ott︠s︡om-osnovatelem, kto postavil svoi︠u︡ podpisʹ pod tremi︠a︡ vazhneĭshimi dokumentami ėpokhi: Deklarat︠s︡ieĭ nezavisimosti SShA, Konstitut︠s︡ii SShA i Versalʹskim mirnym dogovorom 1793 goda, zavershivshim voĭnu za nezavisimostʹ. Ego lit︠s︡o ukrashaet stodollarovui︠u︡...
Author
Series
A Signet classic volume CE1463
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Didn't find it?
Didn't find it in the Minuteman Library Network? Request it from other Massachusetts library systems.
Can't find what you are looking for? Recommend it to your local library as a future purchase. Suggest a Purchase
