Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (Norton Critical Editions)Franklins Autobiography is the only enduring best seller written in America before the nineteenth century, as well as the most popular autobiography ever written. As such it deserves to be offered to twentieth century readers in the most accurate form possible, and so it is, in this Norton Critical Edition, the first text to be edited directly from the manuscripts, rather than perpetuating the errors of previous editions. The text is fully annotated,