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Meet the Book
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The boy of Volume One is gone. This is the Franklin the world knows — almanac-maker, assemblyman, agent of his province in London — still setting it all down himself, an old man racing his own memory.
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From Inside the Book — Braddock’s Expedition
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
1755: General Braddock will not hear that an army can be ambushed in the American woods — and Franklin, who procured the wagons for that march, tells how counsel was ignored and an army destroyed. He tells it plainly, as he told everything.
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What’s Inside
- Parts Three and Four complete — Philadelphia, 1788, and the final pages of 1789: Poor Richard’s Almanac, the defense of the province, the Albany Plan of Union, the London agency, and the last account he ever wrote.
- 2 hours 48 minutes of narration — Benjamin Franklin himself, in golden light in the corner of the stage, reading his own life to its final page.
- Volume One stands on the same shelf — the boy before the man.
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The Autobiography is Benjamin Franklin’s own text, written between 1771 and 1789 and long in the public domain — his words untouched. The narration is a performed reading of that text, made for this edition. Editor: Franklin Langston.
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