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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...