Before he helped launch a revolution, Benjamin Franklin ... he had done his day’s work.” Franklin thinks this a “detestable custom” and proposes what he calls “some reasonable ...

Harvard College Library At some point in the year after Franky died, Benjamin commissioned a portrait of the boy. Was it an attempt to lift Deborah out of debilitating grief? Given Franklin’s ...

Before Benjamin ... on some occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed in learning when at ...

"He was very proud," he said of Franklin and how he passed gas. "He wrote a whole book about it, so I decided the opening episode." Michael Douglas Quips He's Playing 'Rascal' Benjamin Franklin ...

Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...

Today, Think Tank asks about Benjamin Franklin, America’s founding grandfather ... WATTENBERG: There were some people who swore by him and thought he was the most honorable man in the world.

It’s early, and the crowd is not young. A gentleman who was dining with his wife at a table near us stops on his way off. “You know,” he says to me. “You’re a clone of Benjamin Franklin.