Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography Franklin’s willingness to change his views based on new evidence offers a powerful lesson for today’s political climate. Early in his life, Franklin opposed ...

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 ...

“Ben & Me: In Search of a Founder’s Formula for a Long and Useful Life.” Weiner considers Franklin to be “the least dead” founding father. Franklin’s autobiography has been called ...

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H.W. Brands The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius by Joyce Chaplin Stealing God’s Thunder ...

Benjamin Franklin was a true Renaissance man ... shock that he was pretty intentional about his time, according to his autobiography.