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From his beginnings as a journalist at age sixteen to his retirement from public affairs at eighty-two, there was no break in Benjamin Franklin's activity and accomplishments. A writer, inventor, and statesman, he remains unsurpassed in the range of his natural gifts and the important uses to which he put them. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Carl Van Doren incorporates materials from Franklin's letters, manuscripts, journals, and published works to give the most accurate and comprehensive portrait ever written of this great American.

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"""A review of Mr. Van Doren's Benjamin Franklin can be nothing short of a eulogy. The greatest American has found a biographer worthy of him."" -- ""The Nation"" ""Patrick Cullen's narration [is] suitably smart, spirited, and gentle...There is inspiration here at every turn, and one is left feeling the tragedy of America is that Franklin didn't live to be 300--at least. Highly recommended for all collections."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""The most comprehensive and the most intelligently sympathetic biography of Franklin we have."" -- ""New York Times"" ""The picture is final, containing all the lights and shadows, all the episodes and the achievements of the most vital personality of his day."" -- ""Atlantic Monthly"""

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Carl Van Doren (1885-1950) was a critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois and, in 1911, a doctorate from Columbia University, where he went on to teach for nineteen years. Patrick Cullen (a.k.a. John Lescault), a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.

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