Benjamin Franklin—Readings List
Suggestions for Further Reading:
Brands, H. W. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.
Franklin, Benjamin. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959- (37 vols. to date).
Frankin, Benjamin. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin [online] [http://franklinpapers.org/franklin/]. Sponsored by The American Philosophical Society and Yale University.
Franklin, Benjamin, J. A. Leo Lemay, and P. M. Zall. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: A Genetic Text. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981.
Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Lemay, J. A. Leo. The Life of Benjamin Franklin. Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Lemay, J. A. Leo. The Life of Benjamin Franklin. Volume 2: Printer and Publisher 1730-1747. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Wood, Gordon. The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Additional online items (forthcoming):
To see online presentations of items from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society please examine our browse list of selections about Benjamin Franklin.