From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklins youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.Benjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man; his...

A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.

At the time of his famous kite experiment, Benjamin Franklin was unaware that his theories about electricity had already made him a celebrity all over Europe, especially in France, where fashionable circles loved to discuss scientific discovery. Admired by the French court and beloved by French citizens, Franklin effectively became America's first foreign diplomat, later helping to enlist France's military and financial support for the American Revolution....

Set in late-18th-century America, tells the story of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin's two teenage apprentice reporters.