Benjamin Franklin and 85 other good reads from Library of Congress
It is surely a mark of Benjamin Franklin’s enduring influence that three of his works feature in a new list, care of the Library of Congress, of the 88 “books that shaped America.” The list, available...
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In the final months of his long life, a debilitated Benjamin Franklin still found the strength to fulminate against recent trends in the printing trade. He was particularly incensed by the elimination...
View ArticleJust who was Benjamin Franklin?
The challenge of locating the “real” Franklin is greatly complicated by the looming presence of his unfinished Autobiography, written in four distinct stages over two decades and never edited by its...
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