The book explores the life of Benjamin Franklin, suggesting he was America's most successful self-made business person, a printer, scientist, and founding father, presenting a view of him that differed from the common perception of him as just a doddering kite-flyer. It was mentioned that Franklin cast his lot with the revolution, which ultimately 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 book explores the life of Benjamin Franklin, suggesting he was America's most successful self-made business person, a printer, scientist, and founding father, presenting a view of him that differed from the common perception of him as just a doddering kite-flyer. It was mentioned that Franklin cast his lot with the revolution, which ultimately 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.
We think of Franklin as the doddering dude flying a kite in the rain, but those experiments are the most important scientific discoveries of the time.
His media empire makes him the most successful self-made business person in America. I mean, he was never early to bed and early to rise type person.