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 ...

and author of Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life. The topic before the house, understanding Benjamin Franklin, this week on Think Tank. During his life and for more than a ...

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 ...

It is only natural that a conversation about an autobiography turns to a conversation about vanity. After all, who writes a ...

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 ...

Did you know that the history of lending libraries in this country dates back to 1731, when Benjamin Franklin established the Library Company of Philadelphia?