#115 Ben Franklin: An American Life
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us. George Washington was the austere general. Jefferson and Adams were intimidating. But Ben Franklin. That ambitious urban entrepreneur.
Seems made of flesh rather than of marble. He speaks to us. Through his letters and autobiography. Now with rhetoric. But with a chattiness and clever irony.
That is very contemporary. We see his reflection in our own time. He was During his eighty four years. America's best science.
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