The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Giblin

The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Giblin

Now available in paperback for the first time, James Cross Giblin and Michael Dooling tell the story of the man known as the wisest American.

Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children, and the youngest of 10 sons. To help out with the family, he was put to work when he was 10 years old in his father's candle and soap-making shop. Ben hated making soap and candles. Since he was smart and a good speller and he loved to read, he later went to work in his brother's print shop as an apprentice. He read book after book, and soon began to write himself. By 18, he moved to Philadelphia where he eventually openend his own print shop. By age 28 he published Poor Richard's Almanac, a best seller in Colonial America.

James Giblin is Professor of African History at the University of Iowa. He is author of two books on Tanzanian history, The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania (1992) and A History of the Excluded (2005).

Jamie Monson is Professor of African History at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She has published extensively on Tanzanian history and on the history of Chinese development assistance to Africa. She is the author of Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania (Indiana University Press, 2009)

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ISBN 13	9780590485340
ISBN 10	0590485342
Title	The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin
Author	James Giblin
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Scholastic US
Year published	2000-03-01
Number of pages	48
Prizes	South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
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