Benjamin Franklin (1938)

by Carl Van Doren

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A pretty readable and objective History of Ben Franklin. (

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K.Nichols | Oct 14, 2009 |

3312. Benjamin Franklin, by Carl Van Doren (read May 20, 2000) This won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and when I noticed it at our public library I thought I would read it. It has aged well, and is very well done. Franklin was a great man and had an interesting life. Of the 83 winners of the Pulitzer Prize for biography I have now read 49. Without concentrating on reading the others I will never get all of them read--and I will not devote all my time to getting them all read. (

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Schmerguls | Nov 29, 2007 |

Still the best Franklin biography out there, even after seventy years. (

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Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius

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France

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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American Revolution (1775 ∙ 1783)

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Pulitzer Prize (Biography or Autobiography, 1939)

Publishers Weekly Bestseller (Non Fiction, 1938)

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Families break up when poor men emigrate.

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This Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Franklin is not to be confused with The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin as edited by Carl Van Doren.
The potential for confusion is compounded by the fact that some years later the Autobiography and Van Doren's Biography were issued together as a two volume set.

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Carl Van Doren received the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for this work. It contains the most extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, much of which was long out-of-print. Also included are some fifty letters written by Franklin that was never published before.

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