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Benjamin Franklin was born the son of a poor candlemaker and became one of the greatest and best-known Americans in the eyes of the world as as of his own people. As a runaway apprentice from Boston at the age of seventeen, he became a printer's assistant in Philadelphia and rapidly succeeded as a printer, publisher and newspaper proprietor. When forty-two, exactly halfway through his life, he retired from business a wealthy man. Franklin was a lively, impetuous and lovable character with a remarkably original mind. Among his many innovations, he started the first circulating library, the first fire brigade and the first insurance company in America; he made many important scientific experiments and inventions, including that of the lightning conductor. He fought in London for the rights of the colonies and the removal of their grievances. He took a leading part in the winning of the Revolutionary War and was one of those who drew up the Declaration of Independence. He had great success in Paris as America's first Ambassador, and finally returned to be President of Pennsylvania.
—from the dust jacket
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