Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: An American Life Walter Isaacson, , read by Boyd Gaines. . Simon & Schuster Audio, $26 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-7435-3364-5 ...

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 ...

Best link to elsewhere on Wikipedia: Although Benjamin Franklin wrote numerous influential essays arguing for the American Revolution, his best-known work is Poor Richard’s Almanack, an annual ...

In the concluding chapter of “Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist,” Richard Munson summarizes the many Franklins that have been offered up to the reading public over the years.

For Franklin, the American Revolution was chiefly about civic virtue. And in this regard, the Revolution was an extension of what Franklin had been attempting all his life.

Verner W. Crane, N. N., Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin on Slavery and American Liberties, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 62, No. 1 ...

In the concluding chapter of “Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist,” Richard Munson summarizes the many Franklins that have been offered up to the reading public over the ...