Not Your Usual Founding Father

by Benjamin Franklin

Book Overview

An eminent Franklin scholar introduces us to the gregarious founding father who would be a welcome guest at any dinner table

This engaging book reveals Benjamin Franklin's human side--his tastes and habits, his enthusiasms, and his devotion to democracy and the people of the United States. Three hundred years after his birth, we may remember Franklin's famous Autobiography, or his status as framer of the Declaration of Independence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300126883
• ISBN13: 9780300126884
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Ben Franklin Book

Just started reading it, but so far it's fun, informative and entertaining. He truly wasn't what we consider as one of the stiff lipped founding fathers.