Charming self-portrait covers boyhood, work as a printer, political career, scientific experiments, much more. Its openness, honesty, and readable style have made the "Autobiography" one of the great classics of the genre.

Often labeled 'the world's first self-help book, ' founding father Benjamin Franklin's autobiography was never published in his lifetime but has since become a classic.

From "Poor Richard's Almanac" to letters to Jefferson and Adams, the words of the America's favorite Founding Father are edited and annotated in this delightful new reader.

In his own lifetime he knew prominence not only in America but in Britain and France as well. This volume includes Franklin's reflections on such diverse questions as philosophy and religion, social