Edited from his Manuscript, with Notes and an Introduction, by JOHN BIGELOW. Philadelphia; J. B. Lippincott & Co. IN his Introduction Mr. Bigelow tells us the very interesting story of the chance ...

“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 so said Mark ...

I know exactly what I’d do with it: buy the original copy of “The Autobiography.” Because it turns out that Benjamin Franklin ...

Introduction; Franklin's Notes; Twyford, AT THE BISHOP OF ST ASAPH'S, 1771.; CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE, BEGUN AT PASSY, NEAR PARIS, 1784 https://siris ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and the author of several essays on Benjamin Franklin. There was a time, ...

When he retired from the printing business at the age of 42, Benjamin Franklin set his sights on becoming what he called a “Man of Leisure.” To modern ears, that title might suggest Franklin aimed to ...