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New Glimpses Into the Mind of Ben Franklin |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: James Srodes |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,307 Words, 8,351 Characters |
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NOT YOUR USUAL FOUNDING FATHER: SELECTED READINGS FROM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Edited by Edmund S. Morgan
Yale University Press, $26, 320 pages
THE FIRST SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND THE PURSUIT OF GENIUS
Joyce Chaplin
Basic Books, $27.50, 352 pages
One of the staples of impulse-buy displays at bookstore cash registers is little collections of the epigrams of Benjamin Franklin; the kind of gift one gives to an especially bright pre-teen niece or nephew. The serious visitor to that astonishing theme park that is Franklin's mind deserves better, but for a long time the only alternative was his own autobiography which carries one up to just 1759, leaving more than thirty years of his life unexamined.
However, fittingly in 2006--his 300th birthday year--there is a proper, easily accessible collection...
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...Benjamin Franklin," by James Srodes, October 2006 (Article #25211)
--"Tang of the Soil: Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack," by Helen Mondloch, January 2003 (Article #22809)
Copyright © 2006 The Washington Times, LLC.
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