Benjamin Franklin set down his own account of a life spent in printing shops, laboratories, assemblies and diplomatic rooms, and the result has been read as both memoir and manual ever since.
Franklin writes about his early apprenticeship, his move into publishing, his experiments and his public service, returning often to the habits he credited for his progress: thrift, study, steady work and a scheme of moral self-examination. The tone is conversational and frequently self-mocking, which keeps the advice from hardening into sermon and lets a reader watch an Enlightenment mind assess its own record.
At its core:
• A first-hand account of Franklin's rise from modest beginnings to international standing
• His reflections on virtue, industry, education and the uses of money
• Passages on printing, invention and the civic projects he helped organise
• A plain, wry narrative voice that sits easily beside modern self-improvement writing
Recommended for readers of American history, students of the Enlightenment and anyone drawn to memoirs about self-made careers. Stocked at Boipoka.
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