Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...

AN ELECTRIFYING DISCOVERY: Benjamin Franklin was no stranger to the eminent historian Edmund S. Morgan when Mr. Morgan set out to read the statesman and inventor’s complete papers several years ago.

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