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 ...

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 ...

A painting of Franklin’s return to Philadelphia from Europe in 1785 shows him flanked by his son-in-law (in red), his daughter and Benjamin Bache ... which he began at age 65.

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 ...