If you have been reading my blog for more than a month or so, you know that my idea of the ideal American is Benjamin Franklin. I have posted about him several times and I have a number of his biographies. This is a review of another book about him which I recommend to your attention.

James Pilant

Following closely on the heels of Edmund Morgan’s justly acclaimed Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson’s longer biography easily holds its own. How do the two books differ? Isaacson’s is more detailed; it lingers over such matters as the nature of Franklin’s complex family circumstances and his relations with others, and it pays closer attention to each of his extraordinary achievements. Morgan’s is more subtle and reflective. Each in its different way i … Read More

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