From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin's activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he put them. In this biography, Carl Van Doren incorporates materials from Franklin's letters, manuscripts, journals, and published works to give an accurate and comprehensive portrait of this great American.

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