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1) Benjamin Franklin Wealth and Wisdom: The Way to Wealth and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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TWO CLASSICS OF THE AMERICAN SPIRIT TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME
The Way To Wealth
Originally a preface to the 1758 edition of Franklin's beloved Poor Richard's Almanac, it presents a brief fable of a local wise man, Father Abraham, quoting Poor Richard to an eager crowd. In this inspiring tale, Franklin steps out of the past and shares with you his famed maxims about wealth, knowledge, virtue, and all other elements of business success.
The Autobiography...
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Ben Franklin's writings have inspired millions throughout the years, and his advice on how to earn and save money is timeless. The Way to Wealth is a collection of Franklin's essays and personal letters on how to make money, start a business, and save for the future. Essays include "Advice to a Young Tradesman," which explains how to run a profitable business; "The Whistle," a charming parable on how to prevent greed from trumping profitability; and...
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Read about the fascinating life of Benjamin Franklin in this beautifully illustrated version of his autobiography. American icon Benjamin Franklin is known for many things: he published the famous Poor Richard's Almanack, helped found the world-famous University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States. His iconography is everywhere. His likeness adorns, among other things, the United States' hundred-dollar bill....
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Hundreds of delightful aphorisms, carefully selected from many issues of Franklin's popular 18th-century publication: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"; "Love your Neighbor; yet don't pull down your Hedge"; "He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas" and many more.
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Duke Classics
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which Franklin himself called his Memoirs, is the unfinished record of his life written between 1771 and 1790. It has become one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies in history, and has been praised both as a historical document and a piece of literature in its own right. William Dean Howells declared that "Franklin's is one of the greatest autobiographies in literature, and towers
...10) Writings
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Library of America volume 37
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
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c1987
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Franklin ended his life's story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history, years in which Franklin was America's advocate in London, represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, and was America's wartime ambassador to France. During these years Franklin also helped write our nation's Constitution and planned an American Empire...
