TY - BOOK AU - Franklin,Benjamin TI - Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2]: With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical, Selected with Care from All His Published Productions, and Comprising Whatever Is Most Entertaining and Valuable to the General Reader AV - E300PS PY - 2011/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 KW - Statesmen -- United States -- Biography KW - Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Correspondence N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin; Release date is 2011-06-06; Life of Dr. Franklin / written by himself -- Letter from Mr. Abel James -- Letter from Mr. Benjamin Vaughan -- Continuation of life, begun at Passy, 1784 -- Memorandum -- Life of Franklin / continued by Dr. Stuber -- Extracts from Franklin's will -- Writings of Franklin; Produced by Steven Gibbs, Richard J. Shiffer and the Distributed Proofreading volunteers at http://www.pgdp.net for Project Gutenberg; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2]" by Benjamin Franklin is an autobiography written between 1771 and 1790. This unfinished account traces Franklin's journey from his Boston childhood through his rise as a Philadelphia printer and civic leader. Addressing his son William, Franklin recounts his self-education, early publishing ventures, and famous pursuit of moral perfection through thirteen virtues. The narrative ends in 1758 when Franklin was 52, leaving three decades of his remarkable life unrecorded—a testament to ambition, reinvention, and the American spirit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36338 ER -