Benjamin Franklin
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A Boyhood in Boston
17:20 -
A Young Man on His Own
18:05 -
The Birth of Poor Richard
18:49 -
The Civic-Minded Citizen
18:56 -
The Thunder Giant
23:20 -
A Brief Military Career
21:29 -
A Battle With the Penns
18:33 -
The White Christian Savages
12:51 -
The Stamp Act
16:30 -
Friendships in England
20:06 -
The Terrible Hutchinson Letters
20:21 -
Beginning of a Long War
16:22 -
The Splendid Word Independence
19:47 -
France Falls in Love With an American
22:27 -
America's First Ambassador
18:23 -
A Glorious Old Age
22:38 -
The Closing Years
21:16
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Boston’s busy waterfront and a crowded family home provide the starting point for Robin McKown’s biography of Benjamin Franklin. Written for younger readers, it follows a boy whose appetite for books exceeds the opportunities offered by two years of schooling. Work in his father’s candle shop leads to an apprenticeship with his brother James, where printing, borrowed books and experiments in prose become part of his education. Small episodes, including a kite pulling him across a pond, give a concrete sense of his curiosity.
The chapters widen from these beginnings to civic work, scientific interests and public affairs. In the later excerpt, Franklin moves among British political figures, visits Ireland and worries about the treatment of the American colonies. Family letters and advice to his son-in-law keep domestic concerns alongside the larger political story.
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- Author
- Robin McKown
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
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- Ciufi Galeazzi