The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin audiobook.

Genre: biography

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is the plainspoken, vivid life story of one of America's most inventive and influential founders, told largely in his own witty, practical voice. Beginning with his childhood in a large Boston family, Franklin traces his early hunger for books, his restless apprenticeship, and the bold decision to strike out on his own. In Philadelphia he remakes himself through printing and publishing, sharpening a talent for persuasion and an appetite for public improvement. As his career expands, listeners follow his experiments, civic projects, and efforts to cultivate personal discipline - from building habits of industry and frugality to organizing institutions that serve the common good. But the book is not simply a victory lap. Franklin wrestles with reputation, ambition, and the limits of self-made ideals, all while navigating the pressures of business, politics, and a rapidly changing society. Part moral handbook, part coming-of-age narrative, and part portrait of colonial America, this classic invites you into the workshop of a mind determined to learn, to lead, and to leave the world better than he found it.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:19:08) Chapter 01

(00:46:36) Chapter 02

(01:07:12) Chapter 03

(01:22:30) Chapter 04

(01:40:08) Chapter 05

(01:50:02) Chapter 06

(02:17:48) Chapter 07

(02:52:24) Chapter 08

(03:17:55) Chapter 09

(03:51:12) Chapter 10

(04:09:51) Chapter 11

(04:27:21) Chapter 12

(04:47:49) Chapter 13

(05:20:54) Chapter 14

(05:26:19) Chapter 15

(05:34:51) Chapter 16

(06:01:53) Chapter 17

(06:23:09) Chapter 18

(06:33:11) Chapter 19

(07:13:52) Chapter 20

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