Download or read book The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin written by Mark Skousen and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lifelong scholar of Benjamin Franklin's life completes the unfinished "Autobiography" with information on Franklin's attitudes about such topics as the Constitutional Convention, slavery, and Thomas Jefferson.
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Download or read book Writings Collected and Ed with a Life and Introd written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Benjamin Franklin Reader written by Benjamin Franklin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Poor Richard's Almanac" to letters to Jefferson and Adams, the words of the America's favorite Founding Father are edited and annotated in this delightful new reader.
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Download or read book The Founders and the Classics written by Carl J. Richard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book—the first comprehensive study of the founders’ classical reading.
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