Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers. By then, the Read family was well established in the ...
Ken Burns's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin ... of the American Republic. But Franklin's life was full of contradictions, and his success came at a cost. Achievements as ...
(Book cover courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux; author photo courtesy Saffron Sener) The winter of 1740-41 was exceptionally cold and Benjamin ... Franklin would develop five versions of his ...