{"product_id":"the-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin-benjamin-franklin-9780812219296","title":"The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinter and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, \"having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having gone so far through life with a considerable share of felicity.\" The result is a classic of American literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the eve of the tercentenary of Franklin's birth, the university he founded has selected the \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e for the Penn Reading Project. Each year, for the past fifteen years, the University of Pennsylvania has chosen a single work that the entire incoming class, and a large segment of the faculty and staff, read and discuss together. For this occasion the University of Pennsylvania Press will publish a special edition of Franklin's \u003ci\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/i\u003e, including a new preface by University president Amy Gutmann and an introduction by distinguished scholar Peter Conn. The volume will also include four short essays by noted Penn professors as well as a chronology of Franklin's life and the text of Franklin's \u003ci\u003eProposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania\u003c\/i\u003e, a document resulting in the establishment of an institution of higher education that ultimately became the University of Pennsylvania. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo area of human endeavor escaped Franklin's keen attentions. His ideas and values, as Amy Gutmann notes in her remarks, have shaped the modern University of Pennsylvania profoundly, \"more profoundly than have the founders of any other major university of college in the United States.\" Franklin believed that he had been born too soon. Readers will recognize that his spirit lives on at Penn today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEssay contributors: Richard R. Beeman, Paul Guyer, Michael Weisberg, and Michael Zuckerman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Benjamin Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0812219295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812219296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.8\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e68851 \/ Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniv PR Books for Public Libry\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2006 pg. 1 - Recommended\/Special Interest","brand":"Benjamin Franklin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047019639039,"sku":"9780812219296","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46ffa3a2-9f40-4620-ae81-4fb660b4177b.jpg?v=1684987815","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin-benjamin-franklin-9780812219296","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}