[JerseyHighlander]

Here's a Gutenberg Library free download of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/148.html.utf8.gz

That's just to whet the appetite

And then Van Doren's biography of Franklin, the chapters on his time as the Colonists' representative in England and as US ambassador to France are an interesting read.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140152601/002-5297798-4768014?v=glance

[saveliberty]

:-) My father's favorite quote is one of President Washington's. President Washington wrote " We have not heard from our Ambassador to France, Mr. Franklin, in over a year. Perhaps someone should write him a letter."