A Benjamin Franklin reader
By: edited and annotated by Walter Isaacson.
Contributors: Isaacson, Walter.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
Subjects: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Archives; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Statesmen -- United States -- Biography; Scientists -- United States -- Biography; Printers -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775 -- Sources; United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Sources
Genres: Archives.; Biography.; Sources.
Description: Including THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Poor Richard's Almanac, Silence Dogood's letters, Polly Baker's trial, bagatelles to his French girlfriends, the closing speech at the Constitutional Convention, letters to Jefferson and Adams and Washington, and many other writings.
Notes: "The Autobiography, plus : Poor Richard's almanac, Silence Dogwood's letters, bagatelles to his French girlfriends, the closing speech at the Constitutional Convention, letters to Jefferson and Adams and Washington, and other wonderful writings from America's favorite founder."