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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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I was looking for a source that could verify the quotations that >you attribute to Benjamin Franklin in your Exegesis of Franklins Tower, but >despite looking in many quotation books and biographies of Franklin I can not >find a thing.
Carl Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin - I've recently become fascinated with Ben Franklin, but the biography feels a little dense, and I'm not quite ready to try to trudge my way through it just yet.
One possible biography is The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin by Mary Pope Osbourne.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Lyndon Johnson ("Master of the Senate”) have topped the list of good history books this year.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Here's an amusing passage from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography (quoted from Carl van Doren's biography): "Being one day in the country at the house of our common friend, the late learned Mr.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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His brief biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson are especially apt, the sketch of Alexander Hamilton more perfunctory.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Such notable works as Jeffrey Eugenides' novel, "Middlesex," and Edmund Morgan's biography of Benjamin Franklin, overlooked for the NBAs, are finalists for the book critic awards.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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He is the author of numerous works of American history and biography including The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Doubleday), T.
Benjamin Franklin The most comprehensive and the most intelligently sympathetic biography of Franklin ever written.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Benjamin Franklin wrote in his biography: "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion.
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