The Many-Sided Franklin: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Many-Sided Franklin, credited to Paul Leicester Ford, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Many-Sided Franklin by Paul Leicester Ford. Read in English by Michele Fry A fast-paced, somewhat racey look into the life, accomplishments and idiosyncrasies of Benjamin Franklin. Acclaimed biographer Paul L. Ford uses Franklin’s letters, papers and journals to step us through Franklin's many adventures, to reveal intimate details of his personal life - relations with siblings, wife, children, friends, business partners; his physique, health, illnesses, schooling, personal habits and goals; his opinions on education, philosophy, religion, friendship, industry; his library; his career as printer and publisher, writer and journalist, politician and diplomat, scientist, humorist, jack of all trades; and his relations at home and abroad with the “fairer sex“. Goes beyond the official Autobiography. A must read for Franklin devotees. - Summary by Michele Fry, Soloist

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Many-Sided Franklin
• Author credits: Paul Leicester Ford
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 12:17:13

Catalogue topics

• american revolution
• electricity
• Benjamin Franklin
• American history
• colonial america
• pennsylvania
• founding fathers
• poor richard's almanack

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - 1.1 Family Relations — 25:24
2. 02 - 1.2 Family Relations — 27:46
3. 03 - 2.1 Physique, Theories and Appetites — 18:56
4. 04 - 2.2 Physique, Theories and Appetites — 23:46
5. 05 - 2.3 Physique, Theories and Appetites — 23:04
6. 06 - 3.1 Education — 27:18
7. 07 - 3.2 Education — 30:02
8. 08 - 4.1 Religion — 20:12
9. 09 - 4.2 Religion — 22:24
10. 10 - 4.3 Religion — 20:59
11. 11 - 5.1 Printer and Publisher — 29:27
12. 12 - 5.2 Printer and Publisher — 31:28
13. 13 - 6.1 Writer and Journalist — 24:36
14. 14 - 6.2 Writer and Journalist — 27:10
15. 15 - 6.3 Writer and Journalist — 18:03
16. 16 - 7.1 Relations With The Fair Sex — 23:25
17. 17 - 7.2 Relations With The Fair Sex — 21:45
18. 18 - 7.3 Relations With The Fair Sex — 24:50
19. 19 - 8.1 Jack of all Trades — 20:59
20. 20 - 8.2 Jack of all Trades — 15:48
21. 21 - 8.3 Jack of all Trades — 23:58
22. 22 - 9.1 The Scientist — 24:27
23. 23 - 9.2 The Scientist — 25:03
24. 24 - 10.1 The Humorist — 26:03

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