Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer ... “I took Cocker’s book of arithmetic and went through the whole by myself with great ease.” This brief account of the statesman’s mathematical ...
In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career ... the reader definitely will. A book that does what Mr. Munson claims he is out to do—place Franklin’s scientific work ...
Ms. Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin. “How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in ...
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography Franklin’s willingness ... Instead of confronting the man’s hostility, Franklin asked to borrow a rare book from his library. Flattered, the man obliged.
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 ...
A Minnetonka author has just added another prestigious book award to her belt: a silver Benjamin Franklin Award from the Independent Book Publishers Association. “The Ploy” by ...