It might surprise you to learn that the bespectacled Benjamin Franklin was once quite the womanizer who fathered an ...
Congress was sanguine about the prospects, expecting, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “every hour to be informed that Quebec has ...
and author of My Life With Benjamin Franklin; and Ormond Seavey, professor of English at the George Washington University, and author of Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life.
Benjamin Franklin, George Read, Roger Sherman, Robert Morris, George Clymer, and James Wilson. They were men of means and well educated. They had security, but valued liberty more and risked ...
Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin ... Revolution was] that Dr. Franklin's electrical rod smote the earth and out sprung General Washington. That Franklin ...