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Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School

This is why I asked David for Ben Franklin book recommendations. This is the kind of book I come up with on my own. An okay collection of Franklin's writings, but I had seen about half of them in the second part of the last book I'd read, Autobiography and Other Writings. Did read a new piece "by" (F......more

Collected here is a sampling of Benjamin Franklin's bawdy, satirical and subversive essays. Though the title emphasizes the first of these categories, the best work represented here is in Franklin's delightful, scathing criticism of the Crown's mismanagement of the American colonies—particularly in......more

Part way through these 38 writings of Ben Franklin, I thought, "It's a sad comment on our times that we have to market some of the best political commentary and satirical work an American has produced by labeling it as being about farting." I still think that... though, to be fair, the book's editor......more

Franklin's essays were interesting and amusing. Carl Japikse, the editor ruined the book by including that horrible essay at the end where he has a Revelatory dream about a conversation with Franklin, who tells him to spread the message of how America is giving up all her freedoms when he wakes up.......more

I picked up this book on a trip to Philly in an effort to make the founding fathers seem more human for my students... and after reading it, I think it actually might work. These essays, poems, and letters are great examples of Franklin's talents as a satirist and a wordsmith! I think there are seve......more