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 fly a ...

Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a ...

H.W. Brands is the author of "The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin" and other works of American history. Of all the Founders, Benjamin Franklin is the easiest to imagine ...

Avaricious American authors out to capitalize on the renown of the Founding Fathers have always known to take a reading of ...

THERE are many reasons for welcoming Mr. Van Doren’s distinguished life of Benjamin Franklin. In style and arrangement it is a biography in the best classic traditions of that art. The modesty of the ...