The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Premium Edition — The Founder's Blueprint for Institutions That Outlive Their Founder #1003895

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Premium Edition, presents
Franklin's complete, unabridged text — based on the standard
Bigelow/Pine edition, the corrected scholarly source free of the
alterations later editors made to Franklin's original voice — with
a full chapter-by-chapter editorial apparatus built around a single
idea: Franklin wasn't primarily a businessman. He was an institution
builder. Every chapter includes an Editor's Note that names the
mechanism behind a specific episode, an Institution Map tracing the
problem-system-legacy arc behind each of his founding projects (the
Library Company, the Union Fire Company, the University of
Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Hospital, the Albany Plan of Union),
and a Systems Thinking Today section connecting his 18th-century
methods to how institutions, habits, and organizations are actually
built today.

Chapter IX — Franklin's plan for moral perfection — includes The
Thirteen Virtues Framework, his own character-building system
redesigned as a modern, trackable weekly tool. The edition closes
with Franklin's classic essay "The Way to Wealth" in full.

Not a summary. Not a modernization. Every word Franklin wrote to his
son, with the system behind it finally made visible.