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COSIMO CLASSICS The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (17061790) born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother published the famous Poor Richards Almanack helped found the University of Pennsylvania and was the first Postmaster General of the United States. His likeness adorns among other things the United States hundreddollar bill. Benjamin Franklin was as wildly intriguing a personality as his legend suggest and as youve always heard as his autobiography makes plain. From his hoarding of his pay as a teenager to buy books to his askance asides at such habits as the drinking of beer from his work as a printer to his experiments with electricity and much more this is the story of Franklins lifetold as only he could tell itin the years before the American Revolution. A classic of autobiography this is must reading for Americanhistory buffs and for anyone fascinated by largerthanlife personalities.show more