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 ...
It would be difficult to conjure what the United States of America would have become without George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. One can argue it might have been stillborn. Such is the impact ...
Most people's mental image of Ben Franklin is that of an aged man with wire-rim glasses and a comb-over, flying a kite in a thunder storm, or of the spirited face that stares back from a ...
H.W. Brands is the author of "The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin" and other works of American history. Of all the Founders, Benjamin Franklin is the easiest to imagine ...
Avaricious American authors out to capitalize on the renown of the Founding Fathers have always known to take a reading of the zeitgeist when deciding how to portray their subjects. George Washington ...
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Fredd Wayne, the veteran character actor who made a career out of portraying Benjamin Franklin on stage and on TV shows including 'Bewitched' and 'Simon & Simon,' has died. He was 93. By Mike Barnes ...