Benjamin Franklin
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Raised in Boston, Benjamin Franklin moved to Philadelphia where he would become a prominent printer. Worldwide fame and respect was bestowed upon him for his discoveries in a new science, electricity. He would eventually be selected as the first amba...
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble.
Benjamin Franklin
The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "the greatest man and ornament of his age." In this short, engaging biography, historian Edwin S.
Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture
This interdisciplinary collection of comparative essays by distinguished historians and literary critics looks at aspects of the thought of Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin and considers the place of these two men in American culture.
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man." -- From the IntroductionFew men could compare to Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin 300th Birthday Silver Coin
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A fabulous silver dollar-sized coin struck in .900 fine silver. Obverse shows the famous image of a smiling Benjamin Franklin. Reverse reflects the deep and longstanding friendship between the U.S. and France. $39.