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Famous as a scientist, statesman, philosopher, buinessman, and civic leader, Benjamin Franklin was also one of the most powerful and controversial American writers of his time, and has been a subject of intense debate ever since; to Matthew Arnold, he exemplified 'victorious good sense'; to D.H. Lawrence, he was 'the first dummy American.' Franklin's classic Autobiography is his last word on his greatest literary creation - his own invented persona, the original incarnation of the American success story.
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