Benjamin Franklin - Böcker

The authoritative edition of Franklins autobiography, with a foreword by the eminent Franklin scholar Edmund S. Morgan The best and most beautiful edition [of the Autobiography].J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books Among the many editions availab...

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The first American book on personal finance.

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A fascinating compilation of weather forecasts, recipes, jokes, and aphorisms, Poor Richard's Almanack debuted in 1732. This edition presents hundreds of Franklin's timeless maxims, plus selections from the Letters, Autobiography, and Franklin's W...

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Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more.

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Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions...

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Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many issues of Franklin's popular 18th-century publication: Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise; Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge; He th...

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William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world?s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stor...

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A generous selection of writings that brings to life the attractive, complex, and guileful genius of the most celebrated American of his age It takes a "very" inclusive anthology to encompass the protean personality and range of interest...

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Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a long career of literary, scientific, and political efforts over a lifetime which extended nearly the entire eighteenth century. Franklin's achievements range from inventing the lightning rod to publishing P...

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This is the first volume to come from a great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence. Sponsored jointly by the American Philosophical Society and Yale University, this new e...

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This is the second volume to come from great scholarly undertaking, the assembly and editing of Benjamin Franklin's complete writings and correspondence. Volume 2 covers the decade 1735-1744, when Franklin was developing his business as printer, p...

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This latest volume in the continuing edition of one of America's most versatile citizens shows Franklin's interests, already diversified, beginning to broaden still more, until in 1748 he turns over the active operation of his printing o...

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Sponsored by the American Philosophical Society and Yale University, this new edition of The Papers Of Benjamin Franklin will contain everything that Franklin wrote that can be found, and for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addres...

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Franklin's arrival in France caused a sensation. By the time he reached Paris the city was buzzing with rumors: he had come with a small fortune in gold, to put his grandsons in school and then buy himself a Swiss chateau for his retirement; he ha...

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The seventh volume concludes the first period of Franklin's public service in Pennsylvania, and takes him to England to begin his "second career," that of colonial agent. Problems of defense during the war with France, quartering of...

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In this volume Franklin is representing the Pennsylvania Assembly in London, meeting with limited success before the Privy Council over the question of the Proprietor's alleged fraud in Indian lands and with complete reversal over an issue of...

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Early in the period covered by this volume Franklin wrote the "Canada Pamphlet," one of his earliest and most important efforts to influence British public opinion. In it he urged that in peace negotiations with France, Great Britain sho...

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Momentous public affairs mingle with family concerns to give a varied interest to Franklin's papers for 1765. During the first part of the year he was busy trying to get modifications of existing British revenue laws affecting colonial trade ...

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The most important event in Franklin's career during 1766 was his influential examination before the House of Commons advocating the repeal of the Stamp Act. The verbatim account of that examination, as recorded by the assistant clerk, is rep...

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This volume includes communications on such different topics as a gift of fossilized tusks and teeth of 'elephants' found in the Ohio Valley; an appeal to supervise the administration of electric shock to the young daughter of a duke suffering fro...

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The Papers Of Benjamin Franklin will contain everything that Franklin wrote that can be found, and for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addressed to him, the whole arranged in chronological order.

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The year 1770 was momentous on both sides of the Atlantic. In England, Lord North began his long and calamitous ministry by repealing all the Townsend duties except that on tea. This partial repeal eroded the basis of the nonimportation agreements...

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Franklin's arrival in France caused a sensation. By the time he reached Paris the city was buzzing with rumors: he had come with a small fortune in gold, to put his grandsons in school and then buy himself a Swiss chateau for his retirement; he ha...

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Franklin's arrival in France caused a sensation. By the time he reached Paris the city was buzzing with rumors: he had come with a small fortune in gold, to put his grandsons in school and then buy himself a Swiss chateau for his retirement; he ha...

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Franklins activities in 1773 were as multifarious as ever, but behind them were two developments that closely affected his future. One was the growing impact on him and his London world of the shock waves emanating from Bostonthe constitutional de...

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The fifteen months that this volume covers were the climax as well as the end of Franklin's British mission. They include the months of negotiation in which his aid was sought in the unsuccessful attempt to find a peace settlement with the co...

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This book will contain everything that Franklin wrote that can be found, and for the first time, in full or abstract, all letters addressed to him, the whole arranged in chronological order.

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