The Mentor: Benjamin Franklin: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Mentor: Benjamin Franklin by Albert Bushnell Hart: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 14 original MP3 tracks, 1:17:40 running time and a link to listen.
The Mentor: Benjamin Franklin, credited to Albert Bushnell Hart, 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 Mentor: Benjamin Franklin by Albert Bushnell Hart. Read in English by John Doherty; David Lodes; mhaudio; Larry Wilson. This is Vol. 6, No. 7, Serial No. 155 of The Mentor, published May 15, 1918. Benjamin Franklin was one of the leading figures of the 18th century and a founding father of the United States. His interests and accomplishments were broad and varied. Franklin is known as a brilliant inventor and a leading author, politician, diplomat, scientist, postmaster, and an influential printer in Philadelphia. These short vignettes for The Mentor magazine cover many of aspects of Franklin’s amazing life and career. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Mentor: Benjamin Franklin
- Author credits: Albert Bushnell Hart
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 14
- Listed recording duration: 1:17:40
Catalogue topics
- Benjamin Franklin
- United States history
- authors
- inventors
- scientists
- diplomats
- printers
Track guide
- 01 - The Whistle — 4:10
- 02 - Benjamin Franklin - His Life — 6:32
- 03 - Benjamin Franklin - The Man — 7:23
- 04 - Benjamin Franklin - As Politician and Diplomat — 4:42
- 05 - Benjamin Franklin - As Scientist — 6:55
- 06 - Benjamin Franklin - As Man of Letters — 6:26
- 07 - Benjamin Franklin - As Printer — 7:19
- 08 - Franklin in Massachusetts — 3:28
- 09 - Franklin as a Pennsylvanian - Part I — 7:26
- 10 - Franklin as a Pennsylvanian - Part II — 5:50
- 11 - Franklin in the Revolution, Franklin as a Diplomat — 5:25
- 12 - Franklin in the Federal Convention — 3:55
- 13 - The Open Letter — 5:38
- 14 - Daylight Saving Franklin's Idea — 2:30
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