Becoming Ben Franklin

How a Candle-Maker's Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty

by Russell Freedman

2013 86 pages eng

In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in nearly the same spot but was greeted by cannons, bells, and a cheering crowd, now a distinguished stat…