The discussion focused on the new season of a podcast about Benjamin Franklin, noting that he was America's most successful self-made business person, a printer, scientist, and founding father, who ultimately sided with revolution, which split his family apart.
We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain. Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isaacson.
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The discussion focused on the new season of a podcast about Benjamin Franklin, noting that he was America's most successful self-made business person, a printer, scientist, and founding father, who ultimately sided with revolution, which split his family apart.
We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain. Benjamin Franklin is our subject for a new season with Walter Isaacson.
He's the most successful self-made business person in America. A printer, a scientist, founding father, but maybe not the guy we think we know.
Franklin casts his lot on the side of revolution, and it's another thing that splits the family apart.