| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Contributor(s): Franklin, Benjamin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1607964996 ISBN-13: 9781607964995 Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| Lexile Measure: 1370 |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 6" W x 9" (0.44 lbs) 144 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 68851 Reading Level: 11.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 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, as his autobiography makes plain. From his hoarding of his pay as a teenager to buy books to his askance asides at such habits as the drinking of beer, from his work as a printer to his experiments with electricity, and much more, this is the story of Franklin's life-told as only he could tell it-in the years before the American Revolution. A classic of autobiography, this is must reading for American-history buffs, and for anyone fascinated by larger-than-life personalities. |