Thinking about this, my mind turned to a recent book about Benjamin Franklin by journalist Eric ... Throughout his long life (he died at age 84), he was willing to change his mind about vital ...

A one-man multitude, Benjamin Franklin ... He goes long on Franklin’s magnetism: Here was a man who never delivered a memorable public speech but who—after the age of 70—“helped write ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever ... Having accumulated a modest fortune, Franklin retired at age 42 and turned to politics. Between 1766 and ...

Professor Nancy Sinkoff has noted in her excellent article “Benjamin Franklin in Jewish Eastern Europe: Cultural Appropriation in the Age of the Enlightenment” (2000) that Lefin had been drawn ...

ushering the country into a golden age of scientific discovery and global prestige. Benjamin Franklin in London in 1767 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons A portrait of Dashkova in the 1790s ...

Benjamin Franklin had been a self-made man, but he saw to it that his son wouldn’t have to be. He hired tutors to educate William from the age of four until he was old enough to go to an academy ...

Bonus - “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.” Benjamin Franklin passed away on April 17, 1790, at the age of 84, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever ... Having accumulated a modest fortune, Franklin retired at age 42 and turned to politics. Between 1766 and ...