Benjamin Franklin
Robin McKown
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Description
Benjamin Franklin is a biography by Robin McKown, published by Putnam's Sons in New York in 1963 and here in its third impression. Seventeen chapters carry Franklin from a boyhood in Boston to his closing years. The middle chapters treat the birth of Poor Richard, the civic-minded citizen, and the thunder giant of the electricity experiments. Later ones take up the Stamp Act, the Hutchinson letters, and independence.
The opening chapter sketches the Franklins of Boston: poor, numerous, lively, and intelligent. There were seventeen children in all, seven by Josiah Franklin's first wife and ten by his second, Abiah, Benjamin's mother. Suggested reading and an index close the volume, told plainly for the general or younger reader.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Robin McKown |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 298 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |