Benjamin Franklin

"Sterling Biographies" are packed with information, and filled unique images that include rare documentary photographs, artwork, maps and personal artefacts. Focusing on inventors and innovative thinkers who transformed the world, they present first-person accounts and dramatic events related in an intimate and accessible style. Benjamin Franklin was a man of many talents: a scientist, mapmaker, printer and writer. He signed the Declaration of Independence and established America's first hospital. Now, some three hundred years later, he continues to fascinate, amaze and inspire today's young readers.