They Signed: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence   /     Poor Richard's

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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.

Summary

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.

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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 conserv
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Publishing date
2015-06-18 14:15
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheySigned/~3/CeK-B3XIQnA/poor-richards.html
Contributors
  Bruce Carlson
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Enclosures
http://www.myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.com/poorrichard.mp3
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