Benjamin Franklin

From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eightytwo, there was no break in Benjamin Franklins activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he put them.In this Pulitzer Prizewinning biography, Carl Van Doren incorporates materials from Franklins letters, manuscripts, journals, and published works to give the most accurate and comprehensive portrait ever written of this great American.