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During his 84-year life Benjamin Franklin was America's best scientist, inventor, publisher, business strategist, diplomat, and writer. He was ... one of its most practical political thinkers. America's first great publicist, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public and polished it for posterity. In this riveting new biography Walter Isaacson provides readers with a full portrait of Franklin's public and private life - his loyal but neglected wife, his bastard son with whom he broke over going to war with England, his endless replacement families and his many amorous, but probably unconsummated, liaisons. But this is not just a biography of Benjamin Franklin but rather a fascinating look at American and European political history at that time. Isaacson examines the run up to the Revolutionary War, the intimate relations between Britain, France and the colonies and the decisive events that led to America's independence.
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In Europe, Benjamin Franklin was the most famous American of his time. It was he who persuaded the English to repeal the hated Stamp Act. It was ... he who convinced the French to aid in the American Revolution. Franklin helped draft both the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution.
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Benjamin Franklin ... taught himself the violin, harp, and guitar, wrote at least one string quartet, and invented an instrument called the glass harmonica. The glass harmonica is made up of a spiral of glass and dripping water, and it fascinated many in Europe as well as America. (See illustration, p. 65) Each note on the glass harmonica sounds similar to the sound that can be generated by wetting one’s finger and rubbing the edge of a good glass. But on the glass harmonica, one can produce a number of octaves with ease. Many composers wrote music for it at the time, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Benjamin Franklin died on April 17, 1790. He was 84 years old. Ben died of pleurisy. Pleurisy is the inflammation of the tissue that covers the lungs and lines the chest cavity. On his epitaph, the death stones, he wrote," The Body of B Franklin, Printer, Lays here, Food for worms. But the Work shall not be lost; for it will appear once more, in a new and more elegant Edition, Revised and corrected By the Author."
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Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on Jan. 17, 1706. His father, Josiah, was a poor soap- and candlemaker. His mother, Abiah, was Josiah's second wife. Benjamin was the youngest son and the 15th of 17 children.
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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706. He thrived on an education of circumstances. He attended the school of humanities. All while being surrounded by a community of non-conformist. He was the 15th of 17 children. His father was a candle maker.
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