... for his brother James, a printer. Ben, at the age of 12, signed a contract to work for James for the next eight years. This line of work allowed Ben to read even more. He notes that he enjoyed particularly Bunyan, Mather and Daniel Defoe. He borrowed many books from a local bookseller, and developed ... Two opens with the letters to Franklin. The first is from a Mr. Abel James, and it comments on Part One of the Autobiography and the outline of the rest of the work, both of which Franklin had shown him asking for his opinion. Written in 1782, the letter encourages Franklin to complete the...

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... these new revelations had gone against everything these people had been previously taught or conceived to be the truth. Millard then states that because of this all too common thought-pattern among Americans citizens she is taking up writing this piece in hopes that readers will rediscover their deeply rooted ... in early history textbooks or something like that. To my knowledge I had never read any motivating speeches Washington had delivered to his troops at the blizzard of Valley Forge either. Sure enough though Millard included a very powerful one that I had also never seen. It also ...

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