| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Contributor(s): Franklin, Benjamin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508744823 ISBN-13: 9781508744825 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State |
| Lexile Measure: 1370 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.55 lbs) 166 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Benjamin Franklin was not only one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading writer, publisher, inventor, diplomat, scientist, and philosopher. He is well-known for his experiments with electricity and lightning, and for publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac" and the Pennsylvania Gazette. He served as Postmaster General under the Continental Congress, and later became a prominent abolitionist. He is credited with inventing the lightning rod, the Franklin Stove, and bifocals. A year after Benjamin Franklin's death, his autobiography, entitled "Memoires De La Vie Privee," was published in Paris in March of 1791. The first English translation, "The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. Originally Written By Himself, And Now Translated From The French," was published in London in 1793. |