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The Life of Benjamin Franklin
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~~~ Bejamin Franklin ~~~ One of the Founding Fathers 1706 - 1790 |
Benjamen Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. Anambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. He was during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventer, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical--though not most profound--political thainkers. |
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Throught it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle--class values as a source of social strenght, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common pepole." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively. From the book Benjamin Franklin. By Author: Walter Isaacson |
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