Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, this book chronicles the adventures of the runaway apprentice who became, over the course of his eighty-four-year life, America’s best writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, and business strategist, as well as one of its most practical and ingenious political leaders.
Praise for Benjamin Franklin
"The most readable full-length Franklin biography available."
— The Washington Post Book World
"Energetic, entertaining, and worldly."
"In its common sense, clarity, and accessibility, it is a fitting reflection of Franklin's sly pragmatism. This may be the book that most powerfully drives a new pendulum swing of the Franklin reputation."
— The New York Times
"A thoroughly researched, crisply written, convincingly argued chronicle."