The Boy Who Followed Ben Franklin

196 pp. Hardly a boy would approach the reading of such a book as this without being on the alert to discover the secret of Cyrus Curtis's success. Here is a young Yankee, a chap very much like the Ben Franklin of colonial days, who had no well-rounded education, no influential relatives or friends to give him a good start in life, and no fairy godmother to shower rich favors upon him. He starts his career at the age of twelve with three cents in cash and no other prospects. A few decades later he stands forth as one of the most successful publishers in the country and proceeds with enviable distinction from one great enterprise to another.