![]() ![]() ![]() During these years Franklin also helped write our nation’s Constitution and planned an American Empire that would displace the British Empire.įranklin is one of the most fascinating of the Founding Fathers-a polymath like Jefferson, a practical statesman like Washington, and a cynic and wit beyond parallel. He lived another thirty-three full, eventful, and dramatic years, some of the most dramatic years in American history, years in which Franklin was America’s advocate in London, represented Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, and was America’s wartime ambassador to France. He planned to write more-a lot more, but never did. Franklin ended his life’s story in 1757, when he was only fifty-one. ![]() II)īenjamin Franklin’s celebrated Autobiography, published after his death, is one of the greatest autobiographies of all time… but it was incomplete. The Compleated Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (1757-1790) (Vol. ![]()
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