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About the book
Carl Van Doren received the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for this work. It contains the most extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, much of which was long out-of-print. Also included are some fifty letters written by Franklin that was never published before.
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“"It’s hard to write a bad book on such an interesting subject."”
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“"The [biography of Benjamin Franklin] I read."”
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“"I read [this book and "Einstein"] and probed [Walter Isaacson] about them to try to glean what characteristics they had in common."”
George Raveling on Benjamin Franklin
“"[I read this book and] I am blown away and a little sad because I feel like, 'God damn, I went through all this education. No one ever taught me any of this stuff.'"”
