20 Fun Facts About Benjamin Franklin

20 Fun Facts About Benjamin Franklin
Author: Theresa Morlock
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1538202832

Benjamin Franklin was one of America’s most inventive Founding Fathers. He wrote books, tinkered with machines, and created entire new professions with his work. This book is full of fun facts and tantalizing trivia about his inventions, his ideas, and how he became one of the most influential Founding Fathers involved in the birth of America. The book also explores some of his strange medical beliefs, his printing industry, and some of the friendships he made during his time in America, giving readers a fuller appreciation for one of America’s most famous—and cherished—citizens.

20 Fun Facts About Benjamin Franklin

20 Fun Facts About Benjamin Franklin
Author: Theresa Morlock
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1538202891

Benjamin Franklin was one of America’s most inventive Founding Fathers. He wrote books, tinkered with machines, and created entire new professions with his work. This book is full of fun facts and tantalizing trivia about his inventions, his ideas, and how he became one of the most influential Founding Fathers involved in the birth of America. The book also explores some of his strange medical beliefs, his printing industry, and some of the friendships he made during his time in America, giving readers a fuller appreciation for one of America’s most famous—and cherished—citizens.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2015-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1623957915

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of America's most famous memoirs. In this text, Ben Franklin shares his life story and details his attempts to build a life of good habits and virtues. His plan for self-improvement was one of the first "self help" books and his role as a founder of the United States is given a personal perspective. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Who Was Ben Franklin?

Who Was Ben Franklin?
Author: Dennis Brindell Fradin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2002-02-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1101640081

Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author-a man of such amazingly varied talents that some people claimed he had magical powers! Full of all the details kids will want to know, the true story of Benjamin Franklin is by turns sad and funny, but always honest and awe-inspiring.

Benjamin Franklin Unmasked

Benjamin Franklin Unmasked
Author: Jerry Weinberger
Publisher: American Political Thought
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Taking the Autobiography as the key to Franklin's thought, Weinberger argues that previous assessments have not yet probed to the bottom of Ben's famous irony and elusiveness. While others take the self-portrait as an elder statesman's relaxed and playful retrospection, Weinberger unveils it as the window to Franklin's deepest reflections on God, virtue, justice, equality, natural rights, love, the good life, the modern technological project, and the place and limits of reason in politics and human experience. Along the way, Weinberger explores Franklin's ribald humor, usually ignored or toned down by historians and critics, and shows it to be charming - and philosophic.".

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning

How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning
Author: Rosalyn Schanzer
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2002-12-24
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0688169937

Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky. Is such a thing possible? Is it. Take a look inside and find Ben busy at work on every spread. Then find out how he used his discovery about lightning to make people's lives safer. In an inventive way, Rosalyn Schanzer brings us a brilliant and ever-curious American original.

Fart Proudly

Fart Proudly
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Frog Books
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2003-03-31
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781583940792

Meet Benjamin Franklin as you’ve never met him before . . . This hilarious collection includes the Founding Father’s satirical writings on farting, adultery, and other irreverent subjects you won’t find in your history books. A mention of flatulence might conjure up images of bratty high school boys or lowbrow comics. But one of the most eloquent—and least expected—commentators on the subject is Benjamin Franklin. The writings in Fart Proudly reveal the rogue who lived peaceably within the philosopher and statesman. Included are “The Letter to a Royal Academy”; “On Choosing a Mistress”; “Rules on Making Oneself Disagreeable”; and other jibes. Franklin’s irrepressible wit found an outlet in perpetrating hoaxes, attacking marriage and other sacred cows, and skewering the English Parliament. Reminding us of the humorous, irreverent side of this American icon, these essays endure as both hilarious satire and a timely reminder of the importance of a free press.