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Article: American values, then and now.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2009
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COLUMN: IN OUR OPINION; EDITORIAL FOOTNOTE
A rare copy of Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard" almanac was auctioned in New York City last week. Printed in 1733, the book was discovered on a historical society's shelves in Berwick, Pa., and a few months later, dust turned to dollars. An anonymous bidder paid $556,500 for it, the second-highest price ever for a book printed in America.
Preposterous, or would the patriot have approved?
Inklings of what the Founding Father, printer and Boston native himself might have thought come from his own pen: "I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates ...