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Benjamin Franklin
Edwin S. Gaustad
其他書名
Lives and Legacies
出版DIANE Publishing Company, 2008-03
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN14223932679781422393260
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LQ_ELAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become ¿the greatest man & ornament of his age.¿ In this short, engaging biography, historian Gaustad offers a marvelous portrait of this towering colonial figure, illuminating Franklin¿s character & personality. Here is truly one of the most extraordinary lives imaginable, a man who, with only two years of formal education, became a printer, publisher, postmaster, philosopher, world-class scientist & inventor, statesman, musician, & abolitionist. Gaustad presents a chronological account of all these accomplishments, delightfully spiced with quotations from Franklin¿s own extensive writings. Illustrations.