American icon Benjamin Franklin is known for many things: he published the famous Poor Richard's Almanack, helped found the world-famous University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States. Its iconography is everywhere. His image adorns, among other things, the one hundred dollar bill of the United States. Franklin was a tremendously intriguing personality, as his autobiography makes clear. From hoarding his pay as a teenager to buy books to his doubts about habits like drinking beer, from his job as a printer to his experiments with electricity, this is the story of Franklin's life, told as only he could tell it. In the years before the American Revolution. Benjamin Franklin's writings represent a career of literary, scientific, and political endeavors that spanned most of the 18th century and the birth of the United States. This highly illustrated version of Franklin's autobiography includes her reflections on various issues such as philosophy and religion, the social status, electricity, American national characteristics, war, and the status of women. This highly illustrated classic book features an introduction by Walter Isaacson, one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, and sidebars from many historians who have written about this intriguing founding father. A classic in American canon, Franklin's autobiography is a must-read for any serious student of American history.