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The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin is a biography in a picture book format of Ben Franklin's life. He was one of seventeen children and the youngest son in his family.

Starting when he was only ten years old, Ben was sent off to work in order to help provide for his family. He worked in his father's shop making candles and by: 1. Reading Benjamin Franklin’s Biography, “The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by Brands, H.W.” (and by the way what a great reading, what a great story and what a great man) I came to realize that you cannot trust everything is told to you, everything you read or everything you by:   Benjamin Franklin is a Author, printer, political theorist, politician postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

I Strongly recommend one to buy this book, and the following once * The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin * the Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank * The Story of by Life - Hellen Keller/5(K). Summary: This book tells about Benjamin Franklin and his life, from childhood, family, marriage, inventions and contributions.

It covers many aspects and details of Benjamin's life. Critique: a) The best part about this book is the information and life of Benjamin Franklin.

The author shows many aspects and features of this historical person/5. An excellent start-to-finish biography, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life begins by touching on his childhood as best as it can considering the lack of material to work with. After that, Isaacson takes the reader through a more detailed account of Franklin's early entrepreneurial life, through his many inventions, and into his later statesmen days.4/5.

Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos This was the book that started my youthful enjoyment of both history and becoming an avid reader. The tail of Ben Franklin's mouse, Amos, who gives him all the help he needs in inventing his now famous inventions and the founding of our nation is a timeless story/5().

Benjamin Franklin, American printer and publisher, author, inventor and scientist, and diplomat. One of the foremost of the American Founding Fathers, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence. He also made important contributions to science, especially in the understanding of technology.

Early Life. Franklin was born on Januin Boston, in what was then known as the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Franklin’s father, English-born soap and candlemaker Josiah Franklin, had Born:   Benjamin Franklin was born on Januin colonial Boston. His father, Josiah Franklin (), a native of England, was a candle and soap maker who married twice and had 17.

By describing the religious life of Benjamin Franklin in detail over the course of his life, Thomas S. Kidd helps us better understand Franklin’s faith, which as much as American evangelicals love Franklin, was not our own.

P.S. This review was written for Influence Magazine dot com and appears here by permission/5(19). Benjamin Franklin was the youngest son and 15th of 17 children of Josiah Franklin, a soap and candle maker who had immigrated to Boston from Northamptonshire, England.

Because he disliked his father's trade but loved reading, he was apprenticed at the age of 12 to his brother James, a printer. Born in Boston, Benjamin Franklin was the 15th of his father's 17 children. He went to school as a child with the intent of becoming a minister, as his father, Josiah, intended.

However, that idea was dropped after Franklin showed a keen interest in reading and writing. He was apprenticed to. This book is an informative biography children’s book about Benjamin Franklin.

In this book was titled as one of the honor books for the orbus pictus award. The book is all about Benjamin Franklin’s personal life from his childhood till adulthood.4/5.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Page 3 Introduction BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest Size: KB.

The Life Of Dr Benjamin Franklin, Written By Himself The Papers Of Benjamin Franklin Volume 1 January 6, Through Decem Memoirs Of the Life and Writings Of Bf. This animated book summary video is on the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

Seen as a classic in it's genre, it took nearly 20 years to write. It describes how Franklin. From young apprentice Ben to the oldest Constitutional Convention Delegate, The Real Benjamin Franklin will tell the secrets and success of Ben Franklin's life.

Benjamin Franklin was an accomplished man, known for his experiments in electricity, his service in the Postal Services and Printing Pre Novem /5. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin chronicles Franklin's life as a leading author and printer, satirist, inventor, politician, scientist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.

The Ben Franklin effect is a proposed psychological phenomenon: a person who has already performed a favor for another is more likely to do another favor for the other than if they had received a favor from that person.

An explanation for this is cognitive reason that they help others because they like them, even if they do not, because their minds struggle to maintain. Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanack on Decemand continued to publish new editions for 25 years, bringing him much economic success and popularity.

The almanack sold as many as 10, copies a year. Inupon the death of Franklin's brother, James, Franklin sent copies of Poor Richard's to his widow for free, so that she could make money selling them.

Loved the book! Walter Isaacson is thorough and balanced. Great history lesson as Benjamin Franklin was a big player in a the American Revolution. The reader was good, most voices done well, but his Ben Franklin voice is annoying through the whole book.

The sound editing is not good and you often hear the reader swallowing and other saliva noises. Lorraine Pangle, author of "The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin," offers a guide to the best books out there on Ben Franklin.

Lorraine Pangle is a political science professor at the University of Texas at Austin and Co-Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center, a JMC partner program.The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3 Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, J.

A. Leo Lemay. pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 63 illus. Cloth | ISBN | $s | Outside the Americas £ Ebook editions are available from selected online vendors View table of contents and excerpt.

Described as "a harmonious human multitude," Ben Franklin's life and careers were so.