Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2003. As reviewed by Ted Odenwald To arrive at an accurate picture of Benjamin Franklin, claims biographer Walter Isaacson, “we must rescue [him] from the schoolbook caricature of a genial codger flying kites…and spouting homespun maxims… [and […]