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Availability:In StockContributor:Benjamin Franklin, Dave BarrySeries:Modern Library Humor and WitPublish date:2000-05-30Pages:128
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679640387ISBN-10:067964038XUPC:9780679640387Book Category:Humor, Biography & Autobiography, ReferenceBook Subcategory:Form, Political, QuotationsBook Topic:EssaysSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SCBH44F2Q0
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Random House Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679640387ISBN-10:067964038XUPC:9780679640387Book Category:Humor, Biography & Autobiography, ReferenceBook Subcategory:Form, Political, QuotationsBook Topic:EssaysSize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.35Product ID:SCBH44F2Q0
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), diplomat, scientist, writer, inventor, and printer, was one of the drafters and signers of the Declaration of Independence. In his spare time, he founded the University of Pennsylvania and the first American public library.
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

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