As every reader of Franklin’s Autobiography knows, Deborah Read first laid eyes on Benjamin Franklin the day he arrived in Philadelphia, in October 1723, after running away from a printer’s ...

Benjamin Franklin and his future wife ... “We throve together,” Benjamin wrote in his autobiography, “and have ever mutually endeavour’d to make each other happy.” ...

Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography that “the hard-to-be-governed passion of my youth had hurried me frequently into intrigues with low women that fell in my way.” Indeed, he was ...

Benjamin Franklin was sustained by just ... Library of Congress In his Autobiography, Franklin wrote, “I considered my newspaper, also, as another means of communicating instruction,” and ...

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 ...

After all, who writes a book about himself? In his “Autobiography,” Benjamin Franklin admits he, like most older people, indulges the inclination to talk of oneself. But he claims to be ...

Books chosen for the series “Classics of Democracy” included the political writings of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, and novels such as Pearl Buck's The Good Earth. See, for example, ...