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  1. Alsop, Susan Mary. Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris. New York: Washington Square Press, 1982.
  2. Anderson, Douglas. The Radical Enlightenments of Benjamin Franklin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
  3. Barbour, Frances, ed. A Concordance to the Sayings in Franklin’s Poor Richard. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1974.
  4. Battaly, Heather. Virtue. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2015.
  5. Becker, Carl L. Benjamin Franklin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1946.
  6. Bloom, Harold, ed. Benjamin Franklin. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2008.
  7. Bridenbaugh, Carl, and Jessica Bridenbaugh. Rebels and Gentlemen: Philadelphia in the Age of Franklin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1962.
  8. Bunker, Nick. Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity. New York: Knopf, 2018.
  9. Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim’s Progress. London: Penguin Classics, 2008.
  10. Buxbaum, Melvin, ed. Critical Essays on Benjamin Franklin. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987.
  11. Campbell, James. Recovering Franklin: An Exploration of a Life of Science and Service. Chicago: Open Court, 1999.
  12. Carr, William. The Oldest Delegate: Franklin in the Constitutional Convention. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1990.
  13. Chaline, Eric. Strokes of Genius: A History of Swimming. London: Reaktion Books, 2017.
  14. Chaplin, Joyce, ed. Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. New York: Norton, 2012.
  15. Clayton, Anthony. The Coffee Houses of London: A Stimulating Story. London: Historical Publications, 2003.
  16. Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the Founding Fathers. New York: Norton, 1995.
  17. Conner, Paul W. Poor Richard’s Politicks: Benjamin Franklin and His New American Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965.
  18. Defoe, Daniel. An Essay upon Projects. New York: AMS Press, 1999.
  19. Delbourgo, James. A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity and Enlightenment in Early America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
  20. Dull, Jonathan R. Franklin the Diplomat: The French Mission. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 1982.
  21. ———. Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
  22. Epstein, Daniel. The Loyal Son: The War in the Franklin House. New York: Ballantine Books, 2017.
  23. Finger, Stanley. Doctor Franklin’s Medicine. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
  24. Flavell, Julie. When London Was Capital of America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.
  25. Franklin, Benjamin. The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vols. 1–43. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959.
  26. ———. Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings. New York: Library of America, 1987.
  27. ———. Silence Dogood, the Busy-Body, and Early Writings. New York: Library of America, 1987.
  28. Gargaz, Pierre-André. A Project of Universal and Perpetual Peace. New York: Garland, 1973.
  29. Goodwin, George. Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
  30. Hamilton, Alexander. Gentleman’s Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Alejandro’s Libros, 2012.
  31. Hayes, Kevin, and Isabelle Bour, eds. Franklin in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memories by Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
  32. Hoffer, Peter. When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2011.
  33. Houston, Alan. Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
  34. Huang, Nian-Sheng. Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture 1790–1990. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1994.
  35. Inglis, Lucy. Georgian London: Into the Streets. London: Penguin, 2013.
  36. Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
  37. Japikse, Carl. Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School. Berkeley, CA: Frog Books, 1990.
  38. Kerry, Paul E., and Matthew S. Holland, eds. Benjamin Franklin’s Intellectual World. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012.
  39. Lemay, J. A. Leo, ed. The Oldest Revolutionary: Essays on Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976.
  40. ———, ed. Reappraising Benjamin Franklin. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1993.
  41. ———. The Life of Benjamin Franklin, vols. 1–3. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
  42. Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 2014.
  43. Lopez, Claude-Anne. Mon Cher Papa: Franklin and the Ladies of Paris. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
  44. Lopez, Claude-Anne, and Eugenia Herbert. The Private Franklin: The Man and His Family. New York: Norton, 1975.
  45. Mather, Cotton. Essays to Do Good: Modern English Version. New York: Kindle, 2012.
  46. Mayes, Thompson. Why Old Places Matter. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013.
  47. Menz, Steve. Ocean. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
  48. Morgan, David T. The Devious Dr. Franklin, Colonial Agent: Benjamin Franklin’s Years in London. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1999.
  49. Morgan, Edmund. Benjamin Franklin. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.
  50. Mulford, Carla, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Franklin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  51. Nunley, John, and Cara McCarty, eds. Masks: Faces of Culture. St. Louis: Harry Abrams, 1999.
  52. Pangle, Lorraine Smith. The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
  53. Pomeroy, Susan. Benjamin Franklin, Swimmer: An Illustrated History. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2021.
  54. Postman, Neil. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future. New York: Vintage, 1999.
  55. Robertson, Ritchie. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness. New York: HarperCollins, 2021.
  56. Rossiter, Clinton. Seedtime of the Republic: The Origin of the American Tradition of Political Liberty. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1953.
  57. Sanford, Charles, ed. Benjamin Franklin and the American Character. Boston: Heath, 1955.
  58. Sappenfield, James. A Sweet Instruction: Franklin’s Journalism as a Literary Apprenticeship. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973.
  59. Schoenbrun, David. Triumph in Paris: The Exploits of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Harper, 1976.
  60. Seavey, Ormond. Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1990.
  61. Shantideva. A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life. Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1979.
  62. Slack, Kevin. Benjamin Franklin, Natural Right, and the Art of Virtue. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2017.
  63. Talbott, Page, ed. Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
  64. Tanford, Charles. Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
  65. Thane, Pat, ed. A History of Old Age. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005.
  66. Tise, Larry, ed. Benjamin Franklin and Women. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2000.
  67. Tourtellot, Arthur Bernon. Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius: The Boston Years. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977.
  68. Van Doren, Carl. Benjamin Franklin. New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1938.
  69. Van Horn, Jennifer. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
  70. Walters, Kerry. Benjamin Franklin and His Gods. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
  71. Weigley, Russell, ed. Philadelphia: A 300-Year History. New York: Norton, 1982.
  72. White, Jerry. A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
  73. Winterer, Caroline: American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
  74. Zall, Paul M., ed. Ben Franklin Laughing: Anecdotes from Original Sources by and about Benjamin Franklin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
  75. ———. Benjamin Franklin’s Humor. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
  76. Ziff, Larzer, ed. The Portable Benjamin Franklin. New York: Penguin Classics, 2005.