My Autobiography, by Benjamin Franklin

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin recounts the life of one of the most accomplished Founding Fathers of the United States; the runaway printer's apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-years, America's most skilled inventor, writer, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders.

Franklin, born into humble circumstances, was self-educated, and rose to become an inventor of note, philosoph...