{"title":"Benjamin Franklin","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin, 1706 to 1790, walked out on his apprenticeship at seventeen with almost nothing and built himself into a printer, a publisher, an inventor and a founder of a country. Late in life he wrote the method down in \u003cem\u003eThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin\u003c\/em\u003e, starting it as a letter to his son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the first great American account of self-improvement, and it is nothing like the genre it fathered. He talks about debt, credit, reputation, how to get a trade off the ground, how to handle a competitor, how to be useful to a town. He lists the habits he tried to build and is candid about failing at several of them. The man is working, not posing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone who has started something with no capital and no backer will recognize the ground. 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