The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin In American history there are many great Americans. Benjamin Franklin is one of them. He had many professions: a printer, scientist and a statesman. He has seventeen siblings. His father Josiah Franklin a candle and soap maker. He married Deborah Read and had a son William Temple Franklin. As a scientist he developed the lighting rod, which prevented lighting to strike and burn a house. He was a colonel of …showed first 75 words of 522 total…

…showed last 75 words of 522 total…and he didn’t let his riders carry Benjamin’s newspaper The book is about Benjamin’s life, what he went thru and the people who he met that helped him and those who disliked him. I think this book was ok, it was not as good as what people rated, it was just ok to me .I choose it because someone took the book I was reading so I chose this book to read.