The Way to Wealth: Advice, Hints, and Tips on Business, Money, and Finance

Benjamin Franklin was concerned with making the sometimes bitter pill of truth about the human condition easier to swallow. In The Way to Wealth, Franklin refines his maxims and homilies in order to make them more subtle and sophisticated. As a successful author, inventor, scientist, statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of America, he exemplifies the emerging American nation. A man who was very proud of his working roots, in 1758, the year he ceased writing for the Almanack, he printed...