Read Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed at the Internet Archive.
For the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people, illustrated by an eminent example, excluding, as too obvious, the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, One thousand dollars ($1,000).
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, by William Cabell Bruce (Putnam)
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For the editorial article, "Vae Victis!" and the editorial, "War Has Its Compensation."