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Poor Richard's: The Bestseller That Made a Signer
They Signed: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence
English - April 14, 2013 22:29 - 5.43 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSociety & Culture History american history signers Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ben Franklin would have been a busy, hard working printer and not a distinguished member of the Continental Congress had he not come up with a best-selling book that allowed him, eventually, to retire. Franklin was a key independence advocate in a conservative state that generally wanted to stay with Britain, his absence might have made history very different. A bit about Poor Richard's Almanack some passages which have some modern wisdom, and a bit about Franklin's early life.