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They say a cat has nine lives. So had Benjamin Franklin. He was a printer, publisher, scientist, military leader, writer, civic leader, merchant, postmaster general, and statesman. These lives cannot be crammed into one book but have attempted to give a picture of the man who lived them. This book is a start in getting to know Benjamin Franklin.
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Lying back in the water, kite string held firm against the wind, young Ben Franklin floated across the Mill Pond like a sailboat. He glowed with pride and satisfaction. Ben had proved to himself and his scornful friends that this experiments could work.
In the years to come this same curiosity and enthusiasm for experimenting took Franklin much farther than across a pond. The name Benjamin Franklin came to be recognized on two continents as America's leading scientist, writer, and statesman. But he never let this fact set him apart, whether as "Poor Richard", the wise and witty author of Poor Richard's Almanac, the distinguished Dr. Franklin who could be counted on to spice his experiments with fun, or the reckless and formidable champion of the new nation of America.
—from the dust jacket
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