Richard's Poor Almanac
Richard's Poor Almanac

Author: Richard Thompson

Publisher: Emmis Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9781578601844

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Richard's Poor Almanac, inspired by seven years of weekly contributions to the Washington Post, is Richard Thompson's omnium-gatherum of seasoned observations for all seasons -- indoors and out. Like the almanac we've all come to know and ignore, Richard's Poor Almanac is an annual compendium of weathered wisdom rendered in the more palatable form of cartooning.

The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin
The Prefaces, Proverbs, and Poems of Benjamin Franklin

Author: Franklin Benjamin

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781018285894

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Poorer Richard's America
Poorer Richard's America

Author: Tom Blair

Publisher: Skyhorse

Published: 2010-08-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1628730757

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For decades, Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanack provided sage advice and commentary on eighteenth-century America. Now, a modern businessman reflects—writing as Benjamin Franklin—on what America has become. Federal and personal debt are ballooning beyond sustainable levels. Our futures are being jeopardized. Partisan bickering and the entrenched powers of special interests have made it nearly impossible for a real leader to lead. Where is a good American to turn? How about to the man who wrote this timeless observation: “A small leak will sink a great ship”? Ben is back! With his signature intelligence and wit (not to mention a good sprinkling of aphorisms both old and new), Benjamin Franklin, through Tom Blair, moves from the national deficit to Wall Street, from health care to marital bliss. The result is electrifying.

Poor Richard's Legacy
Poor Richard's Legacy

Author: Peter Baida

Publisher: Quill

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780688109660

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This is the first single-volume popular history of American business--a book that is so completely fresh in its approach and so entertaining and penetrating in its content that it is destined to join The Robber Barons as a business and social history classic. Poor Richard's Legacy reveals how the U.S. went from the legendary Yankee know-how to being the world's largest debtor nation.

Poor Richard's Lament
Poor Richard's Lament

Author: Tom Fitzgerald

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780984592135

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Benjamin Franklin has been confined to a private apartment in the Plantation of the Unrepentant for the past two-plus centuries, and has recently received notice that his petition for final processing has at last been approved. In the company of two Intermediaries, Ben appears before a panel of examiners in the Celestial Court of Petitions to make his case. His examiners are three former arch-adversaries: John Adams, Alexander Wedderburn, and Reverend William Smith. By the end of Ben's examination, in which the sins of the Pater are brought devastatingly to light, Ben fully expects to be cast into the abyss. Instead, he's invited to bear witness to what has become of America in the two-plus centuries of his absence. Ben's odyssey of witness begins at his birth site in Boston, passes through New York (where Ben upstages a leadership conference at the Waldorf Astoria), and ends, with wrenching poignancy, at his gravesite in Philadelphia.