Daugherty, James Henry

A biography of Benjamin Franklin from his birth in Boston in 1706 through his years as printer, statesman, inventor, author, and reformer.

In this retelling of Androcles and the Lion, Andy meets a lion on the way to school and wins his friendship for life by removing a thorn from his paw.

James Daugherty shows us Lincoln as his contemporaries saw him and also the age in which he lived. We see Lincoln from a young man drifting down the Mississippi to the time of his death. The volume is illustrated with the author's own lithographs.

Describes briefly life in twelfth century England and the rule of Richard, relates the events leading to Magna charta, and traces milestones in the history of constitutional law since 1215.