《富兰克林自传》是一部影响了几代美国人、历经两百余年经久不衰的励志奇书。它包含了人生奋斗与成功的真知灼见，以及诸种善与美的道德真谛，被公认为是改变了无数人命运的美国精神读本。阅读本书，与一个伟大心灵对话，收获一份人生修养的智慧。
本杰明·富兰克林是18世纪美国的实业家、科学家、社会活动家、思想家、文学家和外交家。他还是一位优秀的政治家，是美国独立战争的老战士。他参加起草了《独立宣言》和美国宪法，积极主张废除奴隶制度，深受美国人民的崇敬。
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
1. Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston
2. Beginning Life as a Printer
3. Arrival in Philadelphia
4. First Visit to Boston
5. Early Friends in Philadelphia
6. First Visit to London
7. Beginning Business in Philadelphia
8. Business Success and First Public Service
PART TWO
9. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
PART THREE
10. Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
1. Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston
2. Beginning Life as a Printer
3. Arrival in Philadelphia
4. First Visit to Boston
5. Early Friends in Philadelphia
6. First Visit to London
7. Beginning Business in Philadelphia
8. Business Success and First Public Service
PART TWO
9. Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection
PART THREE
10. Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities
11. Interest in Public Affairs
12. Defense of the Province
13. Public Services and Duties (1749~1753)
14. Albany Plan of Union
15. Quarrels with the Proprietary Governors
16. Braddock’s Expedition
17. Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier
18. Scientific Experiments
19. Agent of Pennsylvania in London
PART FOUR
SELECTED WRITINGS
NEWSPAPER WRITINGS: 1722~1734
Silence Dogood, No. 7 (1722)
Preface to the Pennsylvania Gazette (1729)
A Witch Trial at Mount Holly
POOR RICHARD’S ALMANAC: 1733~1758
Preface to Poor Richard (1733)
Preface to Poor Richard (1739)
The Way to Wealth
PROJECTS: 1728~1749
A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge among the British Plantations in America (1743)
OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS: 1744~1785
An Account of the New Invented Pennsylvanian Fireplaces
Of Lightning (The Lightning Road)(1767)
ESSAYS: 1747~1768
The Speech of Polly Baker(1747)
Exporting of Felons to the Colonies (1751)
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, and the Peopling of Countries (1751)
On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor (1766)
LETTERS: 1771~1775
What Sort of Husbands Would Be Fittest (1771)
To Jonathan Shipley (1775)
REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS: 1766~1787
Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One; Presented privately to a late Minister, when he entered upon his Administration(1773)
To the Count de Vergennes, a Diplomatic Apology (1782)
Speech in the Convention, at the Constitution of
Its Deliberrations(1787)
WISE, PRACTICAL, AND HUMOROUS WRITINGS OF THE AGED SAGE: 1722~1790
To Joseph Priestley,On Moral Algebra, or Decision-making (1772)
The Ephemera (1778)
The Whistle (1779)
A Letter to Samuel Mather (1784)
To Ezra Stiles a Religious Credo (1790)
POEMS AND EPITAPH
I Sing My Plain Country Joan
Epitaph Written 1728
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