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"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man." -- From the Introduction Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he... read more
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Franklin's autobiography has been admired both as representative eighteenth-century literature and as a revolutionary document belonging to a new era.
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