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Up to the EServer - EServer Books The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Edited by Charles W. Eliot, L.L.D Ben Franklin was many things, but perhaps more than anything else he was a politician, and there is no more reason to expect an unbiased autobiography from Franklin than from any other politician. In a 1961 introduction, L. Jesse Lemisch wrote, Franklin of the Memoirs and of Poor Richard is ...