Young Benjamin Franklin
Title | Young Benjamin Franklin PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Bunker |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2019-08-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101872802 |
In this new account of Franklin's early life, Pulitzer finalist Nick Bunker portrays him as a complex, driven young man who elbows his way to success. From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity. But in his youth he had to make his way through a harsh colonial world, where he fought many battles with his rivals, but also with his wayward emotions. Taking Franklin to the age of forty-one, when he made his first electrical discoveries, Bunker goes behind the legend to reveal the sources of his passion for knowledge. Always trying to balance virtue against ambition, Franklin emerges as a brilliant but flawed human being, made from the conflicts of an age of slavery as well as reason. With archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, we see Franklin in Boston, London, and Philadelphia as he develops his formula for greatness. A tale of science, politics, war, and religion, this is also a story about Franklin's forebears: the talented family of English craftsmen who produced America's favorite genius.
Young Ben Franklin
Title | Young Ben Franklin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Inventors |
ISBN | 9780439020190 |
Focuses on events from Benjamin Franklin's youth in Boston which proved influential in his later life.
Benjamin Franklin: Inventor, Statesman, and Patriot
Title | Benjamin Franklin: Inventor, Statesman, and Patriot PDF eBook |
Author | R. Conrad Stein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780528824784 |
Life of Benjamin Franklin-Statesman, patriot and inventor.
Young Benjamin Franklin
Title | Young Benjamin Franklin PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Mayhew |
Publisher | |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | Apprentices |
ISBN |
Benjamin Franklin
Title | Benjamin Franklin PDF eBook |
Author | Edmund Sears Morgan |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780300101621 |
Draws on Franklin's extensive writings to provide a portrait of the statesman, inventor, and Founding Father.
The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin
Title | The Remarkable Benjamin Franklin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2008-09-23 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781426302978 |
Learn about this most amazing American.
The Story of Young Benjamin Franklin
Title | The Story of Young Benjamin Franklin PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne Whipple |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | |
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