The Benjamin Franklin Page

( 1706-1790 )

Major Works
J. A. Leo Lemay selected and annotated the texts included in Writings. Library of America, 1987.
The Dogood Papers ( 1722 ).
Poor Richard's Almanac ( 1732-1757 ).
" Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania " ( 1749 ).
" Idea of the English School " ( 1751 ).
" A Narrative of the Late Massacres " ( 1764 ).
" No Taxation Without Representation " ( 1766 ).
" Information to Those Who Would Remove to America " ( 1784 ).
Autobiography (1771, 1784, 1789-90)

About Franklin
Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, 1938.
Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin : An American Life, Simon and Schuster, 2003.
Leo LeMay's Authoritative Franklin Site.
The World of Benjamin Franklin from The Franklin Institute.
Benjamin Franklin from D. Campbell.
B. Franklin and His Autobiography from From Revolution to Reconstruction.
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America from People's Path.

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