Benjamin Franklin was a leading US Founding Father and inventor. Discover who Benjamin Franklin was, his groundbreaking inventions of the lightning rod and bifocals, influential books, and key ...

The story is briefly this : Franklin presented to M. le Veillard, a French gentleman of his acquaintance (Mayor of Passy and gentilhomme ordinaire du Roi), a copy of his autobiography, which ...

As part of a celebration of the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth, Mark Skousen talked about his book [The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin], published by Regnery.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. For fans of: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Written by Benjamin ...

Despite how beloved Franklin was in the United States and indeed, around the world, at the time of his death in 1790, his “Autobiography” reads like that of a humble man.

There was a time, not too long ago, when every schoolchild in America learned about Benjamin Franklin and his exploits; a great many read his brief Autobiography. Unfortunately, that time has passed.

“The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” appeared posthumously in 1791 and has “brought affliction to millions of boys since, whose fathers had read Franklin’s pernicious biography.”Or ...