American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, 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 hundred-dollar bill. Benjamin Franklin was as wildly intriguing a personality as his legend suggest, and as you've 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 Franklin's life-told as only he could tell it-in the years before the American Revolution. A classic of autobiography, this is must reading for American-history buffs, and for anyone fascinated by larger-than-life personalities.

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com
Published: 08/23/2012
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781607965022

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 11.8
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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