by Andrew Licon

Created on: December 18, 2008   Last Updated: December 28, 2008

While I was researching this on the Internet, there was a small comment about Franklin wanting to repeat his life, I thought, "Why Would a man with his intellect even think about that?" Ben Franklin was an extremely smart man, who from a young age was the head of his class. In his Fathers Words he was "Bookish" from the age of 12. He began working in his Older Brother's, James Printing business, Franklin was a heavy reader from his younger days, and this allowed him to read even more, and therefore expand what turned out to be a very solid mind. That was just the beginning to a great life by a great man.

I can imagine Franklin sitting and contemplating every second of his life and either questioning it and or betaking it down to the most absolute detail. I wonder, but cannot figure out why would he write and incomplete (not saying the book isn't finished) record? Is there something hidden in his history that we are not supposed to know? Or find out about? [1] Back too the question at hand, why did Ben Franklin write his biography? At the beginning of the book there is a salutation to his son, William Franklin. Franklin states that he is writing this to give his son an accountment of his life. Personally I believe he was doing this as an attempt to rethink his life. He believes he lead a great life but wants [2]to live life again to do some thing over. He wanted to pass this message on to his son. In an attempt to pass on a message of live life correctly. This book is amazing in the sense of when it was written, literacy was very low and there was little written word form this era, so this being one of the documents with the most insight into 18th century American colonies.

Franklin believed in hard work, I think he was a perfect example of an original founder, the original conservative. He believed that anything could be achieved through hard work. The idea of a limited government, less taxes, and more personally liberties, and it was these ideals that sparked the revolution; also a non-intravenous foreign policy, the idea of trading and being friends with countries for economic gain, stay out of alliances etc.

Silence Dogood, The secret identity of Ben Franklin when he was 16 years old. When he was a young man he wrote a series of 14 letters under the alias of the widow "Silence Dogood." These letters were given to his older brothers printing shop it secret. This was in effort to get Franklins work published. Some believe that these letters were left as a series

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