Franklin: The Essential Founding Father
By Jim Srodes [Learn More at Amazon.com]
From the Publisher
Historian and biographer James Srodes tells Franklin’s incredible life story, making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, politician, and unlikely adventurer.
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I’m not sure this is the best book about Franklin, although everyone educated person should study his life and ideas. He was one of of the most influential people in history, and he was, in my opinion, peerless in his understanding of political, social and in some areas the science of his era. He has been described as one of the most intelligent humans to ever walk the Earth, although he was as human as the rest of us, with all the accompanying flaws.