Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer, newsman, author, inventor, philosopher, diplomat and founding father of the United ...

There is a lot to be said for making America great again. But what does that mean? Thinking about this, my mind turned to a ...

In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

Comprehensive and accessible, this Companion addresses several well-known themes in the study of Franklin and his writings, while also showing Franklin in conversation with his British and European ...

The same is true for the name, Benjamin Franklin, which came to stand for all sorts of things but almost always ... Content may require purchase if you do not have access.) To save this book to your ...

Let’s go around the room and first with you, Bill. What did you mean when you say in the title in your book that Benjamin Franklin was the first American? The First American? MR. BRAND ...

(Sample: “A leader has a vision.”) In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer, writer, humorist, postmaster, inventor, scientist, polemicist, diplomat—he is ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to ...