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 ...

A new book examines the evolution of the American ... and France Greg Daugherty Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin was colonial America’s leading editor and printer of ...

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 ...