Young Benjamin Franklin
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Author | : Nick Bunker |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2019-08-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101872802 |
In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.
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Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Inventors |
ISBN | : 9780439020190 |
Focuses on events from Benjamin Franklin's youth in Boston which proved influential in his later life.
Author | : Henry Mayhew |
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Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1862 |
Genre | : Apprentices |
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Author | : George Goodwin |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300220243 |
An account of Franklin's British years.
Author | : Edmund Sears Morgan |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300101621 |
Draws on Franklin's extensive writings to provide a portrait of the statesman, inventor, and Founding Father.
Author | : Wayne Whipple |
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Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1916 |
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Author | : Benjamin Franklin |
Publisher | : First Avenue Editions ™ |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1512405264 |
Between 1771 and 1790, American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin sat down to record the important events of his life, from his childhood in Boston to his work as a printer in Philadelphia, to his trips to Paris and his plans for the first public library. The story of the invention of the Franklin stove, the first Poor Richard's Almanac, and his experiments with electricity are all included here. His "Project for Moral Perfection"—a list of desirable virtues and steps to achieve them—influenced the modern self-help genre. Hundreds of years later, Franklin's account of his rise from middle-class obscurity to become a world-renowned scholar and civic figure continues to promote the American Dream. First published in 1791, this unabridged version of Franklin's autobiography is taken from the 1909 copyright edition.
Author | : Bailey MacDonald |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-10-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416997628 |
The play’s the thing . . . To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding. When the troupe arrives in the sleepy little town of Stratford-on-Avon, Viola’s uncle is arrested for murder, and she joins forces with an irksome local boy, named Will Shakespeare, with an active imagination, a penchant for trouble, and a smart turn of phrase, to uncover the real culprit. A perfect blend of humor, drama, and adventure and a rich evocation of 16th-century England inform this fresh and original historical mystery that introduces an appealing pair of amateur sleuths.
Author | : Henry Mayhew |
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Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : Apprentices |
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Author | : David A. Adler |
Publisher | : Lerner Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1430130385 |
"This read-along shows how Ben Franklin, one of 17 children in a poor family in Colonial Massachusetts, became one of our greatest statesmen and inventors. This straightforward biography is embellished with soft background music and sound effects that are picked up from the details in the lively, quaint illustrations in the accompanying book." -AudioFile