I feel that Ben is the greatist American of all time he was so involved in many great things it is hard to point out just one. So here is a link:

http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/info/index.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9542039

http://library.advanced.org/22254/home.htm

and one more

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/colonialamerica/p/bio_franklin.htm

I would recommend you read Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. This is one that used to be on the recommended reading list for college bound students. I didn’t read it until years after I graduated, but it was still interesting.

This is something that isn’t going to get into the stuff about the various ladies he was linked with over the years, at least not to such an extent that it wouldn’t have been approved by school boards 30 years ago, but it is filled with the kind of experiences that a younger person would appreciate, such as his need to get away from Boston and his frustration with the constraints of apprenticeship.