The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

ISBN 10: 1602069603 / ISBN 13: 9781602069602

Verlag: Cosimo Nov 2007, 2007

Beschreibung

Neuware - American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), 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.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781602069602

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• Verlag: Cosimo Nov 2007
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1602069603
• ISBN-13: 9781602069602
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 222B x 145 H x 12 T Millimeter Breite: 222 mm, Höhe: 145 mm, Tiefe: 12 mm
• Gewicht: 336 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1706-1790), 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.