Dec 21, 2009
Benjamin Franklin excelled in a dazzling variety of literary forms. He initiated the United States’ first successful periodical series, the “Dogood Papers”; he wrote and published Poor Richard’s Almanack, an annual compilation of weather predictions, jokes, tales, proverbs, and miscellaneous materials; he published numerous scientific papers, such as the description of his famous kite experiment which identified lightning as a form of electricity; he wrote piercing satires such as the delightful “The Sale of the Hessians” and brilliant...
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