Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790

Benjamin Franklin reader / Benjamin Franklin; edited and annotated by Walter Isaacson. - New York ; London etc. : Simon & Schuster, ©2003. - xv, 551 p. : portr. ; 25 cm.

With hard- and supercover

Contents: pt. I. The Young Apprentice -- pt. II. The Philadelphia Printer -- pt. III. Poor Richard and Friends -- pt. IV. The Public Citizen -- pt. V. Lobbyist in London -- VI. American Rebel -- VII. Ambassador in Paris -- pt. VIII. Constitutional Sage -- pt. IX. The Autobiography

Summary: Including THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Poor Richard's Almanac, Silence Dogood's letters, Polly Baker's trial, bagatelles to his French girlfriends, the closing speech at the Constitutional Convention, letters to Jefferson and Adams and Washington, and many other writings

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